Georges Braque

To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Georges Braque (Argenteuil-sur- Seine, 1882−Pari´s, 1963), the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao will exhibit from June 13 - September 21, 2014 a large retrospective of Braque's work that will survey all the periods in the artistic trajectory of one of the most important artists of the 20th Century. Braque was the creator of Cubism along with Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris, and a pioneer of the papiers collés (collage or glued papers). On his return from World War I, Braque developed a style of his own and focused his work on the systematic exploration of still lifes and landscapes. He has regarded as the French painter par excellence, inheritor of the classical tradition and also a precursor of the abstraction that emerged during the postwar period. The exhibition will showcase works from his Fauvist period to his later works, and will culminate with the extraordinary series of large workshops and birds, with special emphasis on the most noteworthy phases of his work, such as Cubism, the depictions of canephors he created during the 1920s, and the landscapes near the end of his life.