(1882 - 1963)

French painter Georges Braque studied art in Paris at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts and then at the Academie Humbert. With Pablo Picasso, he developed the cubist art movement in the early years of the twentieth century. After 1907 he and Picasso worked together, continually experimenting with this new art form. Their brilliant collaboration was brought to an end with the onslaught of war in 1914. Braque went to fight and did not resume painting until 1917. He continued to grow as an artist (best known for his still-life studies), gaining the stature of a major figure in twentieth-century art. In addition to his paintings, Braque made woodcuts, etchings, and lithographs; the etchings and woodcuts were earlier works, the lithographs were published in Paris after World War II.