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Georges Braque

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Georges Braque (May 13, 1882 - August 31, 1963) was a French painter and sculptor, and with Pablo Picasso one of the inventors of cubism.

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- Georges Braque -

Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil-sur-Seine, France. He grew up in Le Havre and studied in the evenings at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from about 1897 to 1899.

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Violin and Candlestick, Paris, spring 1910 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)

Braque was injured in the First World War, after which he moved away from the harsher abstraction of cubism.

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