Artist: George Braque

Title: G. Braque Exhibition

Medium: Antique lithograph 

Year: 1959

Condition: Good

Dimensions: 12” x 9”

Printer: Mourlot, Paris

Provenance: Sothebys New York, NY, 

                     Art Group Projects Laguna Beach CA 

World renowned lithographer Fernand Mourlot organized an exhibition of all the prints artists had created at his shop, Mourlot Studios. This piece is from the folio collection which he printed to accompany the exhibition. His shop, later renamed Mourlot Editions, had become one of the largest print studios in Europe by the mid 20th Century, transformed from the simple wallpaper shop it started out as to a respected studio hired by French and foreign museums to produce posters for their own exhibitions. As his studio grew, so did Mourlot's ambitions, and he soon began inviting some of the best artists of the time to produce prints at his shop. Many of the era's most famous modern artists began discovering the art of lithography under Mourlot's direction.

The folio edition Art in Posters includes a number of these remarkable pieces by Georges Braque, Chagall, Raoul Dufy, Fernand Léger, Matisse, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso, which were reproduced by Mourlot Studios at Imprimerie Nationale de France in 1959.