Georges BRAQUE (1882-1963)

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Georges BRAQUE (1882-1963)
Tithonos, 1962-2012 Bronze sculpture. Landowski foundryman's stamp, mortem cast made in 2012. Signed, dated and numbered 7/8. Made after the gouache Tithonos signed by Georges Braque in 1962. Bronze sculpture. Stamp of the founder Landowski, port-mortem cast made in 2012. Signed, dated and numbered 7/8. Made after Tithonos gouache signed by Georges Braque in 1962. H_35 cm L_50 cm The "Gemmail" is a neologism invented by Jean Cocteau by the contraction of two names, gems and stained glass. The technique was born in the 1930s from the work of two men. The painter Jean Crotti, Dadaist and brother-in-law of Marcel Duchamp, then by Roger Malherbe-Navarre in the 50s. Jean Crotti is a friend of Georges Braque. The painter held him in high esteem, and even considered him the inventor of abstract art. It was he who came up with the idea of gems as an artistic process. Roger Malherbe-Navarre is Jean Crotti's pupil. He is the forerunner of objects animated by electricity and decorative motifs. He is the heir of both artistic and scientific currents and is the creator of gems, even if the idea came from Crotti. The creation of gemmail stems from a double discovery: the idea of superimposing fragments of glass and finding the technical means to fix them. Plates and other coloured glass elements are superimposed on a backlit glass pane, making it possible to obtain an unlimited palette of colours that are definitively fixed by a binder. The artists choose a painting from their pictorial work that can be transcribed into Gemmail and entrust it to the Malherbe workshop, whose craftsmen work according to the directives of great painters such as Braque and Picasso. Braque, always inhabited by his training as a craftsman, was ecstatic: "If I were thirty years old, I would be the Gemmist Braque".
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