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'Braque's prints are striking and impressive. They testify to his willingness to push the techniques of printmaking to their limits in order to express his concerns as a painter. He said of lithography, I set out to do something new with it... I made it almost like painting, rather than trying to produce simple touched-up drawings, as was traditional. To this end he focused above all on colour in his lithographs. The rich but sombre greys, browns and blacks, offset by touches of lemon-yellow and reddish brown, of his early prints were followed later by intense, sometimes startling contrasts of brighter hues, associated more often with Pop Art.

To his etchings Braque brought a very individual concern with surface texture: he bit his plates deeply to produce strong relief effects, and also experimented with varnish. In all his graphic work Braque seems to have relished the creative potential of printmaking technology, working through state after state of a particular print, and trying out different combinations of shapes and colours. It is not the finished product that is interesting, he once wrote in his notebooks, so much as the means of achieving it.'

Jennifer Mundy, George Braque, Printmaker

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