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La Musique, from book: Si je mourais là-bas (If I Die Over There)

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La Musique, from book: Si je mourais là-bas (If I Die Over There)

1962
20th century
14 1/4 in. x 18 3/4 in. (36.2 cm x 47.63 cm)

Georges Braque, French, (1882–1963)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Wood engraving on paper
Credit Line: Gift of Bill Bomar
Accession Number: 1981.033

Object Description
Double page of sheet music at the center of the composition; small brown and black area above the top center of the music; brown and black horizontal area below the bottom of the sheet music.
Published in 1962, just a year before Braque passed away, the timely Si je mourais là-bas (‘If I die over there’) was a suite of eighteen wood-engravings to accompany poems from Guillaume Apollinaire’s Poèmes à Lou, which Braque himself selected and edited accordingly, originally bound in a large volume or livre d’artiste. ‘a great poet and a man to whom I was deeply attached’ – Braque dedicated the suite to the French poet Apollinaire

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