Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art in New York November
7 & 8, 2007
A highlight of the sale was L’Écho by Georges
Braque, work associated with the artist’s celebrated Studio series, a group of
eight views of his atelier painted from 1949-1956 in Varengeville on the
Normandy coast (est. $15/20 million). Braque worked on several canvases at
once, reworking and making major changes as he went along.
Although, not a part
of this series specifically, L’Écho was begun at least by 1953 while he was
already painting and repainting some of the Studio pictures. He finished and
signed the work in 1956, the same year it was exhibited as Le Tapis Rougeatthe
Galerie Maeght. The composition is divided into two parts: a white pitcher with
yellow highlights at the left is balanced on the right by a richly painted,
beige and taupe bird with spread wings. A piece of white newspaper bearing the
title L'Écho unites these two major elements both visually and spatially. Once
finished, the present canvas remaineda source of inspiration to Braque. He kept
the work in his studio and it inspired subsequent compositions.
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