Original Georges Braque Poster Estampes - Livres, 1958 - Mourlot

This is an original lithographic poster created in 1958 for an exhibition of illustrated books and prints by Georges Braque at the Galerie Maeght on the Rue du Bac in Paris — one of the most prestigious galleries of the 20th century, and the institution most closely associated with Braque's mature work.

The exhibition, titled Estampes — Livres, celebrated one of the most distinguished bodies of work in the history of the livre d'artiste — the French tradition of illustrated books in which the greatest painters of a generation worked alongside poets and writers to produce limited-edition volumes that stand as major works of art in their own right. Braque contributed to some of the most celebrated of these books, collaborating with poets including René Char, Pierre Reverdy, and Saint-John Perse.

Printed by the Ateliers Mourlot, this poster sits at a particularly rich intersection — Maeght, Mourlot, and Braque were three of the defining institutions of Parisian artistic life in the postwar decades, and their collaboration produced some of the most beautiful printed material of the 20th century.

A refined and historically significant piece for the collector of postwar French art, the livre d'artiste tradition, and the golden age of the Parisian gallery poster.