Lot #2140: GEORGES BRAQUE - Tete - Original color collotype

 

Artist: Georges Braque (French, 1882 - 1963).
Title: "Tete".
Medium: Original color collotype.
Date: Composed 1944-45. Printed 1962.
Dimensions: Overall size: 11 13/16 x 15 3/8 in. (300 x 391 mm). Image size: 10 15/16 x 14 1/4 in. (278 x 362 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil with the initials, lower right; annotated 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. [21782-3-225]