18k gold textured brooch designed by Georges Braque

18k gold textured brooch designed by Georges Braque

A rare 18k gold textured brooch from 1963, a bird flying right against clouds and decorated with red enamel (model 4).

(designed by Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor, lived 1882-1963), called: 'Antiboree', made of red enamel and 18 carat yellow gold (signed: or750 / Bijoux de Braque and LP2457).

Total weight: 22 grams,

Height: 3.5 cm,

Length: 6 cm.

(* Attached for illustration are several screenshots of similar pins and prices from auction sites and galleries abroad).

Relevant literature - R. de Cuttoli and H. de Löwenfeld, Metamorphoses de Braque. Gouaches, bijoux, sculptures, lives d'art, lithographies, Paris 1989, p. 19 (original gouache and gold brooch with blue enamel); Martine Newby Haspeslagh, Jewelry by Contemporary Painters and Sculptors @50: 1967-2017. Didier Ltd, London 2017, pp. 32-33

(* Georges Braque was a French painter who worked at the beginning of the 20th century. He is considered, along with Pablo Picasso, the founder of the Cubist movement in modern art.)

Period: 20th century