G. Braque - Galerie Maeght - 13 rue de Téhéran
Georges Braque
French, 1882–1963
1956
A 1956 lithograph with gouache made as an exhibition poster for Galerie Maeght, where Braque pairs a bold, calligraphic motif with printed newsprint to announce his show.
At first glance a sweeping, charcoal-like black line sketches an ambiguous bird- or star-shaped form that seems to float above a faded newspaper sheet, while a solid black band at the bottom anchors large stenciled letters ‘G. BRAQUE’ and a hand-painted gallery address.
By grafting expressive, painterly marks onto lithography and found newsprint, the poster collapses fine art and graphic design—part of a postwar turn in which artists used posters to bring modernist practice into public and commercial realms.
Medium
Ltihograph; gouache
Dimensions
29 1/8 x 19 13/16" (73.9 x 50.2 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Peter Stone Collection of Posters by Artists
Accession
426.1976
Palette
Exhibitions
