Fox
Georges Braque
1911
Medium
etching and drypoint in black on Arches wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 54.7 × 38 cm (21 9/16 × 14 15/16 in.) sheet: 65.4 × 48.8 cm (25 3/4 × 19 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.2098
About the Artist
Georges Braque
Georges Braque (1882–1963) was a French painter, collagist, and sculptor who, together with Pablo Picasso, invented Cubism — one of the most revolutionary developments in the history of Western art. Born in Argenteuil and raised in Le Havre, he initially trained as a house painter and decorator before studying fine art at the Académie Humbert and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Braque's early ...