Georges Braque - Big trees at Estaque - 1908

“His mind has purposely induced the twilight of reality, and suddenly a universal rebirth is taking place plastically within him and outside him. He expresses a beauty full of tenderness, and the mother-of-pearl of his paintings gives iridescence to our understanding.” – Guillaume Apollinaire on Georges Braque’s Art, November 1908

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