Georges Braque
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Overview
Born in France in 1882 into a family of painter-decorators, Georges Braque was introduced to art from a young age. Though Braque initially trained in the family business, he later began studying artistic painting. His earliest works were impressionistic in style, but by 1905 he aligned himself with Fauvism. Through his painting classes, Braque met the likes of Raoul Dufy and Othon Friesz, with whom he would share ideas and eventually join the Fauve movement. This involvement was, however, short lived. Unimpressed by the strict rules of Fauvism and its reliance on colour, Braque sought to paint in a different manner, one which would prioritise composition, structure and perspective. Through focusing on these elements, Braque came to invent Cubism, a revolutionary movement that would shake up the art world and become the greatest innovation in painting since the discovery of perspective in the Renaissance. Collaborating with Pablo Picasso, Braque worked unceasingly in a continuous and productive friendship that built up momentum around the radical Cubist ideas. These elements that Braque created would remain with the artist for the entirety of his career, and although he moved on from the movement, he continued to embed certain Cubist ideas within his later works.
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Works
Exhibitions
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Object / Subject: The Art of Still Life
7 July - 26 August 2022Bernard Jacobson Gallery is pleased to present a selection of still lifes by Georges Braque, William Tillyer, Bruce McLean, Matthew Smith, and Tom Wesselmann, among others. -
Georges Braque: The Poetry of Things
4 November 2021 - 27 January 2022Bernard Jacobson Gallery presents the first solo exhibition of Georges Braque in London since Braque: The Late Works at the Royal Academy, nearly 25 years ago. The exhibition brings together 17 still-life paintings, made between 1922 and the 1950s. -
Prints I wish I had published
11 January - 9 February 2019In 1969 Bernard Jacobson opened his first London gallery – a fourth-floor walk-up on Mount Street, Mayfair, dealing in prints by international stars, including Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg, as well as publishing prints by leading British artists including Malcolm Morley and Robyn Denny. Printmaking fit the radical, pop sensibility of the time, and Jacobson was part of that heady explosion of interest in the medium. As the gallery approaches its half century in 2019, it is fitting that this landmark year opens with an ambitious two-part exhibition exploring Jacobson's personal and abiding love of prints and some of the remarkable works published by the gallery during an eventful 50 years in the business. -
Some of the artists I have worked for
10 September - 5 October 2019To end the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the gallery, we are delighted to introduce a selection of works by the artists that helped shaping its success.
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