GEORGES BRAQUE (1882-1963)
Frontispiece, from: La bibliothèque est en feu
etching and aquatint, on Japon nacré, 1956, signed and dedicated pour René Char, inscribed and numbered Epreuve d’artiste 3/4 in pencil, an artist's proof aside from the book edition of one hundred on Arches with smaller margins, published by L. Broder, Paris

Plate 232 x 184 mm.
Sheet 511 x 334 mm.

René Char (1907-1988), Paris; a gift from the artist.
Bernard Moustrou (?-1991), Avignon.
Acquired from the above by the present owners.

Vallier 109

Georges Braque-René Char at the Bibliotheque littéraire Jacques Doucet, Paris, 1963 (cat. n. 18).

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Vallier mentions the present impression in the artist's catalogue raisonné.
D. Vallier, Braque, The Complete Graphics, London, 1988, p. 165.