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La Musique, from book: Si je mourais là-bas (If I Die Over There)
196220th 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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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas , 10/20/1988 - 2/15/1989
- A + A: Albany to Amarillo , 7/8/1995 - 8/13/1995
- Influences , 8/24/1995 - 10/22/1995
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