Georges Braque

Braque was raised in the Normandy port town of Le Havre, where he first studied art. His early work was characterized by a conservative impressionist manner derived from artists such as Eugène Boudin and Johan Barthold Jongkind. While the lessons of postimpressionism eluded him at first, he emerged as a modernist painter following his revelatory experience of fauvism at the Salon d’automne in 1905…

Georges Braque was born on May 13, 1882, in Argenteuil-sur-Seine, France. He grew up in Le Havre and studied evenings at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts there from about 1897 to 1899. He left for Paris to study under a master decorator to receive his craftsman certificate in 1901. From 1902 to 1904, he painted at the Académie Humbert in Paris, where he met Marie Laurencin and Francis Picabia…

Landscape at La Ciotat. La Ciotat, summer 1907. Oil on canvas…and other works

Works in the TATE collection

Philadelphia Museum of Art