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An eighteen gold and ruby brooch, Georges Braque
9 December 2013, 10:00 EST
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An eighteen gold and ruby brooch, Georges Braque
designed as a bird in flight, the textured body with ruby cabochon eye, signed Bijoux de Braque, Phaeton, no. E6/75; LP 2447; with French assay mark and maker's mark; gross weight approximately: 22.2 grams; length: 3 1/2in.
Footnotes
Georges Braque was a major 20th-century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art style known as Cubism He was born on May 13, 1882 in Argenteuil, France and died August 31, 1963 in Paris, France.
He was well known for his paintings and sculptures and his art moved from Fauvism to analytic Cubism. He created lithographs, sculptures, illustrations, jewelry and decorative art, designing stage décor of the Servei Diaghilev ballets in the 1920's and the ceiling of the Etruscan Room of the Louvre in Paris, in the 1950s.
From the late 1940s he treated various recurring themes such as birds, ateliers, landscapes, and seascapes. Because of ill health during the last few years of his life, Braque was prevented from accepting large-scale commissions, but he continued to paint, make lithographs and design jewelry.
After 1956, the dominant theme in Braque's work became the flying bird, which he saw as a personal symbol of his art, and it is one of these that he chose in 1958, when asked for a painting to represent himself at the World Fair.
His jewelry has appeared in museum exhibits around the world, most recently in "From Picasso To Koons: The Artist As Jeweler" at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami, March 15-July 21, 2013. Diane Venet's book, of the same title, includes several birds from Braque's series of birds.