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GEORGES BRAQUE L'Oiseau et son ombre II.
Color aquatint and etching, 1961. 335x585 mm; 13 1/4x23 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 21/75 in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published by Maeght, Paris. A superb impression with strong colors.
As early as 1929 Braque (1882-1963) explored avian imagery in his illustrations for Hesiod's Théogonie, a series of Greek myths on the origin of the cosmos and the gods who shaped the world. By 1939, Braque was expressing vanitas ideas in paint, specifically in the form of the bird: in his Atelier series he included a star-shaped embryonic bird on canvas on a cruciform easel. These apercus did not come to full fruition until the 1950s when Braque explored the form, shape and color of the bird more extensively in both his prints and paintings. Vallier 157.
