Large Nude
Georges Braque
1927
Medium
brown chalk and stumping on wove paper laid down on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 91 x 72.4 cm (35 13/16 x 28 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Woodner Collection
Accession Number
2000.25.1
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 ...