Les Grands Peintres : Georges Braque

BRAQUE, Georges

Verlag: Genève: Editions René Kister, coll. Les Grands Peintres, 1956

First edition. Quarto (270 x 180 mm), pp. 32. Publisher s soft covers with photographic wrappers. Photographic survey of Braque at work, in a series called Les Grands Peintres . Endpaper with full page calligraphic inscription Pour W. Halvorsen souvenir amical de Varengeville G. Braque 1956 . The capital G of Georges extends to form a painter s palette with brushes. Text in French by André Verdé, photographs by Roger Hauert. Walter Halvorsen (1887-1972) was a Norwegian art critic and dealer who was responsible for introducing the French Impressionists to Scandinavia. He had studied at the Académie Matisse in Paris in 1909-1910 and became acquainted there with young French artists. During the First World War he arranged auctions in Norway (which remained neutral in the war) of paintings by Matisse, Picasso, Bonnard, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cezanne and others. His friendship with Braque lasted until the artist s death in 1963; he subsequently arranged an exhibition of Braque s works in Oslo and Bergen in 1964-65. cf. n° 18. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1630343538771

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Les Grands Peintres : Georges Braque
Verlag: Genève: Editions René Kister, coll. Les Grands Peintres
Erscheinungsdatum: 1956
Einband: Soft cover
Zustand: Very Good
Signiert: Inscribed by Illustrator(s)
Auflage: 1st Edition