Profil, from the series “Le tir à l’arc”

Georges Braque

1960

  • Titles Profil, from the series "Le tir à l'arc" (Proper)
  • Artist Georges Braque, French, 1882 - 1963
  • Medium lithograph
  • Dimensions sheet (secondary): 14 7/8 × 11 in. (37.8 × 27.9 cm) sheet (primary): 8 9/16 × 6 1/8 in. (21.7 × 15.6 cm) image: 8 1/4 × 5 7/8 in. (21 × 14.9 cm) mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Chuck Pensinger, AFI.44.2009
  • Work Type print
  • Classification Prints

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Two sketches of nude females. The figure on the left sits with her arms stretched upwards and her head titled down. The figure on the right stands leaning forward with her arms stretched out to the proper left.