GEORGES BRAQUE | Le Tir à l'arc

Private Collection, France
Simon C. Dickinson, Ltd., New York 
Galerie Berès, Paris (acquired from the above in 2000)
Acquired from the above on September 18, 2006

New York, Simon C. Dickinson, Ltd., 19th and 20th Century Works on Paper, 2000, n.n., illustrated in color in the catalogue

This work is in good condition. Executed on cream wove paper. The left, upper, and lower edges of the sheet are deckled. Hinged to a mat board at several places on the verso but not laid down. The colors present nicely. There are two vertical creases in the center of the composition suggesting that the sheet was perhaps originally utilized as a covering to a book. These creases are faint and do not detract from the overall appearance of the work.
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The present lot is the maquette for the cover of Le Tir a l'arc, an illustrated book with eight lithographs and one etching and aquatint published by Louis Broder in 1960.