Nature Morte Oblique (Angled Still Life) 1950 HS

Year1950

Hand SignedLower Right 

Condition Excellent 

Framed with PlexiglassGold Frame w/ Cream Mat and Gold Filet 

Purchased fromAuction House 2024 

Provenance / HistoryProvenance: Sold: Swann Auction Galleries, New York, "19th and 20th Century Prints and Drawings," March 3, 2011, Lot 463 

Story / Additional InfoLiterature: Maeght 1017 on p. 293 in Vallier. Maeght, Paris, pub. Using a more subdued color palate, as Braque usually employed for his still lives, Braque depicts two orangey colored apples before a glass of water, sitting on some undefined surface. The still life is framed by a rusty colored boarder, which cuts off the scene in the upper right corner giving the piece its name ‘oblique’. The apples are defined by sensuous black lines that make them pop off of the page. The ink is not smooth, and instead there are brush marks that gives rough texture to the background of the still life. The rust colored boarder is also an uneven hue, and together with the color makes the boarder look like corroding metal – an interesting and rustic framing device for a still life including food. The inner portion, full of soft green, pastel blue, and creamy orange, pops against the dark reddish frame, bringing the viewer directly in to the true highlight of the etching. 

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Georges Braque - France

Art Brokerage: Georges Braque French Artist: B. 1882-1963. Georges Braque was one of the inventors of Cubism, as well as the collage, two artistic techniques that would open a crucial door into twentieth century art. Along with Picasso, Braque crossed traditional boundaries and worked toward something beyond abstraction; he strove to link abstraction to visual reality, and succeeded in doing so by pioneering the innovative techniques that changed modern art. Listings wanted.