Georges Braque in His Home in Paris. Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908–2004), 1944

6 Cubists:

Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Delaunay

“Cubism, one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century, was created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles coined the term Cubism after seeing the landscapes Braque had painted in 1908 at L’Estaque in emulation of Cézanne. Vauxcelles called the geometric forms in the highly abstracted works “cubes.”  src

Georges Braque, The Painter and His Model, 1939

Picasso, his son Paulo, Jean Cocteau, Georges Braque and Françoise Gilot, in front of Picasso’s studio, Vallauris, 1953

Georges Braque in his studio, 1912 (age 30).   Photo Archives Laurens.

Georges Braque, The Studio (Vase before a Window), 1939.   MET

Georges Braque

Georges Braque

“In Art there is only one thing that counts; the thing you can’t explain.”