Le Poète, in Cinq poésies en hommage à Georges Braque
Georges Braque
1958
Original color lithograph on Japon nacré paper for the cover of the first edition of Cinq poésies en hommage à Georges Braque by René Char, Geneva, Edwin Engelberts publisher, 1958
55 x 70,5 cm
Numbered in pencil lower left on 75, signed by the artist in pencil lower right
Mourlot print, Paris
Catalog raisonné : Vallier 131
This original color lithograph forms the cover of the book Cinq poésies en hommage à Georges Braque with text by René Char. For the book, the paper margins are folded inside. The friendship between René Char and Georges Braque began in 1945, as evidenced by the many illustrated books they produced together. The right-hand side of the subject shows a Greek-inspired profile of a man, while on the left a bird seems to be joining him.
