Artist: Georges Braque (French, 1882-1963)

Title: Bird of the Woods or Bird XVII

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Date: 1958

Dimensions: 19 1/4″ x 21 1/8″

Location in Library: Fourth floor

Media: Color lithograph

works on paper

Owner: The Brooklyn College Library Collection. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Description:

Braque is one the great artists and innovators of the twentieth century. He is especially well known for his invention of Cubism with Picasso. Braque’s lifelong interest was the depiction of space and the relationship of objects within it. The art historian John Golding said about Braque’s fascination with space, “the birds’ trajectories describe and inform it — the beating of their wings stirs space and renders it tangible.” Birds were one of the major themes in Braque’s art during the last two decades of his life.

Related Websites
– Georges Braque at Guggenheim Collection
– Georges Braque at Artchive
– Georges Braque at MoMA

Suggested Readings
– Golding, John, Sophie Bowness, and Isabelle Monod-Fontaine. Braque: The Late Works, 1997.
Call Number: ND553.B86 A4 1997
– Wilkin, Karen. Georges Braque, 1991.
Call Number: N6853 .B7 W53 1991
– Rubin, William. Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism, 1989.
Call Number: N6853 .P5 A43x 1989