Lot #1613: GEORGES BRAQUE - Tete Grecque - Original color collotype

 

Artist: Georges Braque (French, 1882 - 1963).
Title: "Tete Grecque".
Medium: Original color collotype.
Date: Composed 1948. Printed 1962.
Dimensions: Overall size: 13 3/16 x 10 3/4 in. (335 x 273 mm). Image size: 12 3/8 x 9 3/4 in. (314 x 248 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil with the initials, lower right; annotated E.A., lower left. A proof aside from the regular edition. Light cream wove paper. Ample margins. Fine impression. Very good to fine condition. Comment(s): Authorized by and printed under the supervision of Braque shortly before his death. This print, from a limited edition, was not issued separately; rather, in a signed and numbered portfolio. Braque applied a complimentary signature to several AP, TP, and numbered impressions. Image copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. [21780-3-225]