Lot #989: GEORGES BRAQUE - Forme - Original hand-colored gouache pochoir on collotype

 

Artist: Georges Braque (French, 1882 - 1963).
Title: "Forme".
Medium: Original hand-colored gouache pochoir on collotype.
Date: Composed 1957. Printed 1959.
Dimensions: Overall size: 7 1/4 x 9 5/16 in. (184 x 237 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $700
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $1,000/1,500
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil with the initials, lower right; annotated "H.C." in pencil, lower left. From the edition of 60 Hors Commerce impressions. Cream wove Arches paper. Full margins, as issued. Fine impression with vivid colors. Fine condition. Provenance: From the library of the London gallerist and bookseller Anton Zwemmer (1892–1979), a publisher of the work.
Comment(s): Authorized by and printed under the supervision and participation of Braque, four years before his death. Braque applied a complimentary signature to a number of H.C. impressions of this print. The auction record for a pochoir (“Nature morte”) of approximately the same size as our example is SF8,400 ($6,737) realized at Galerie Koller, Zurich, 6/23/2006, lot #Z20/3. A more recent sale (“Nature morte au citron”) at Swann Auction Galleries, New York City, 3/13/2018, lot #367, realized $4,250. Image copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. [30038-1-700-NA]