The Order of Birds, 1962
Oil on paper mounted on canvas, signed below right
29.6 x 41.7 cm
A certificate written by Arman Israel, dated November 2019, will be given to the buyer.
PROVENANCE Private
collection, Dubai
EXHIBITION
Impressionism and Modern Art at the Suntory museum of art, Japan from July 10 to September 20, 2010.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Catalogue of the exhibition Impressionism and Modern Art at the Suntory museum of art, Japan from July 10 to September 20, 2010, repr. p.116 under number 81.
Saint-John Perse, L'ordre des oiseaux, Au vent d'Arles 1962. The order of birds was printed in 30 copies (I to XXX) accompanied by 12 etchings and 100 numbered copies from 1 to 100.
The work presented today is one of the 12 works reproduced in engravings in this collection.
Born in Argenteuil in 1882, Georges Braque made his first steps into the artistic world within a family of painters and decorators. First engaged in the wake of the Fauves, he was finally seduced by cubism, creating a rupture with the classical vision by preferring the fragmentation of volumes.
Exploiting several themes during his work, Georges Braque has been interested in the motif of birds since the late 1930s. It is during a visit to the Camargue zoological and botanical reserve that the artist is particularly interested in the different species of birds, and in particular the pink flamingos whose flight inspires him to take flight. From then on, the bird took its rightful place in the painter's artistic universe, first as a graphic element, notably in the series of Workshops, then in its own right, becoming Braque's reference model.
Birds do not have a true model. In the painter's universe, this fragile creature becomes the archetype of his aesthetic and artistic production. Birds are not painted realistically but become symbols of purity and simplicity. This theme became so dear to the artist that he incorporated it int
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