print
- Museum number
- 2004,0602.16
- Title
- Object: L'envol (Bird Taking Wing)
- Description
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Blue bird silhouetted at diagonal angle to top right corner, against textured light blue uneven ground on white and enclosed in blue/grey frame. 1960
Colour lithograph on Rives paper
- Production date
- 1960
- Dimensions
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Height: 510 millimetres (sheet and image (deckled edges))
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Width: 650 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From an edition of 75 plus a number of signed hors commerce copies and some unsigned proofs, printed by Maeght imprimeur, Paris.
Text from 'Living with art: The Alexander Walker collection' (British Museum Press, 2020):
A bird takes flight, silhouetted against a patch of blue sky and framed by a thick grey border. Braque’s lithographs, which he began to make in 1921, almost always included colour. Birds are a recurring subject, usually appearing in simplified forms and often in flight. This late print was published by Maeght Imprimeur, Paris in 1960. In the same year, a retrospective of Braque’s graphic work was held at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris and in 1961 he became the first living artist to be given a retrospective at the Musée du Louvre (Jennifer Mundy, 'Georges Braque: Printmaker', London: Tate Gallery, 1993, pp. 9)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2004
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by Alexander Walker from the Redfern Gallery, London on 09/02/68
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2004,0602.16
