Georges Braque (after) — “Astéria”, embossed print with fine gold leaf — Heger de Löwenfeld c. 1970

After Georges Braque (1882–1963), Astéria.

A very fine embossed print, gilded with 23-carat fine gold, produced after a creation by Georges Braque by Baron Heger de Löwenfeld, the artist’s collaborator in the realisation of his celebrated jewellery.

The work belongs to the suite “Hommage aux bijoux de Braque”, devoted to the jewellery creations conceived by Georges Braque at the end of his life and transposed in relief by Heger de Löwenfeld.

On thick, deckle-edged paper, the composition is treated in deep embossing: the motif, entirely gilded in fine gold, genuinely stands out from the sheet, lending it an almost sculptural character.

The subject, Astéria, belongs to the mythological repertoire so dear to Braque in the final years of his oeuvre. The figure is reduced to an ensemble of powerful, pared-down lines, midway between drawing, sculpture and jewel.

Example numbered 186/200 in pencil.

Signature of Heger de Löwenfeld in pencil, lower left.

“G. Braque” signature in relief / blind stamp within the sheet.

Numerous blind-stamped inscriptions in the paper:

“ASTERIA”; “Or fin 23 carats”; “Hommage aux bijoux de Braque”; “Sculpt. Heger de Löwenfeld”

Edition produced circa 1970–1971.

Examples from this suite are notably documented with the publisher Pierre de Tartas in Paris.

Presented in an elegant bespoke museum-quality frame under glass, the subject set on a raised mount, with anti-reflective and anti-UV glass. Oak borders.

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