“Like the alcoholic who takes his little glass in the morning,” the old man once said, “I take up my brushes.” Though frail, Georges Braque still takes up his brushes each morning in his ...

No modern artist was more of a dreamer than Braque. This helps to explain why in New York, the city that never sleeps, his reputation has always been somewhat ambiguous. Braque can strike ...

New York’s Museum of Modern Art pulled out all the stops for ‘Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism,’ brilliantly untangling a knotty artistic revolution that opened the door wide for work ...

And Picasso was right; his crosshatched galaxy of pink nudes, Demoiselles d’Avignon, ranks today as a turning point in art. But at the time, all that flabbergasted Georges Braque could say was ...

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Georges Braque didn’t exactly lack public recognition in his lifetime. In 1955, aged 70, he was the first contemporary artist to officially enter the Louvre, with a commission for the ceiling of ...

I can’t.” The artist Isabelle was closest to as a child was Braque. “He was like a third grandfather; I loved him,” she says.

Another key influence was African and Polynesian art, which became widely available in Europe around the time Picasso and Braque started their Cubist experiments. Non-Western art offered a ...

art dealer-cum-producer/director Arne Glimcher ("Mambo Kings") explores the links between cubism and movies in "Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies," armed with a gaggle of artists, historians ...

"Few people can say: I am here," Georges Braque once remarked. "They look for themselves in the past and see themselves in the future." The artist also advised: "Keep a clear head. Be Present." ...