Georges, Braque, Si je mourais là-bas, Bon à tirer, 1962
1962
Original woodcut in color on pure wove paper for Si je mourais là-bas by Guillaume Apollinaire, Paris, Louis Broder éditeur, 1962
48 x 36 cm
Annotated, dated, signed by the artist in pencil lower left “Bon à / tirer.”
Edition Féquet et Baudier, Paris
Catalogue raisonné : Vallier 181
Like glued paper…
On this woodcut, geometric shapes reminiscent of birds are scattered on a pink background. Pink, the color of love, Guillaume Apollinaire declares his laziness to Louise de Coligny-Châtillon, with whom he has fallen in love.
” … Forgotten memory alive in
Everything
I would blush the tip of your
Pretty pink breasts … “
About the author
Georges Braque (1882-1963)
The creator of Cubism with Pablo Picasso around 1907, after the First World War he adopted a more traditional aesthetic with a fairly dark color palette. Still lifes and landscapes are bathed in a calm, silent atmosphere. Georges Braque was also a painter of birds, which figured prominently in his late work. In 1953, they were given pride of place on the ceiling of the Salle Henri II at the Louvre. A close friend of poets such as René Char, Francis Ponge and Pierre Reverdy, Georges Braque illustrated numerous texts.
