Si je mourais là-bas (p.47)
Georges Braque
SOLD
1962
Original woodcut in colors on Japon paper for Si je mourais là-bas by Guillaume Apollinaire, Paris, Louis Broder éditeur, 1962
47,1 x 37,1 cm
Numbered in pencil lower left on X, signed by the artist in pencil lower right
Printed by Féquet and Baudier, Paris
catalog raisonné : Vallier 181
Louise de Coligny-Châtillon was one of France's first female aviators. For less than a year, she was the object of Guillaume Apollinaire's mad love, inspiring him to write Poèmes à Lou.
This profile of a queen, transposed by Georges Braque in woodcut on a royal blue background, illustrates the author's love for this young woman. The crowned head seems to gaze tenderly at her chosen one. In contrast to the painting The Two Birdscreated for a ceiling in the Louvre, where Braque surrounded two black birds with a thick white line, the profile is surrounded by a black line.
