Georges BRAQUE

Braque is one of the great artists of the 20th century who devoted themselves, even modestly, to tapestry. It was first at the request of Marie Cuttoli, from 1933, that he entrusted works intended to be reproduced in tapestry (Still Life with Guéridon, on deposit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Grenoble). In the 1950s and 60s, it was Pierre Baudouin, in conjunction with the weavers of Aubusson and the National Manufactures, who was responsible for developing cartoon transcriptions from the artist's works. Simultaneously, shortly before his death in 1963, Braque produced a final series of gouaches on the theme of metamorphoses intended to be transcribed in various media. Tapestry will be one of them.

“The Three Graces,” from 1962, is one of these gouaches that will be transposed into sculpture or jewelry. We find the style both lyrical and synthetic of the artist's last works, which we find, for example, in the ceiling decoration of the Henri II room of the Louvre Museum, the Birds, 1953.