Live Auction 2464Impressionist & Modern Art
Georges Braque (1882-1963)
Lot 1 Property from the Estate of Andrée Lavigne Trudeau, Quebec

Georges Braque (1882-1963)

Carte de voeux

Closed20 September 2011

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Georges Braque (1882-1963)
Carte de voeux
signed 'G Braque' (lower right) and dated and inscribed '1954 Bonne Année' (throughout)
watercolor and pen and India ink on paper
3 7/8 x 5 7/8 in. (10 x 15 cm.)
Executed in 1954

Grace Elliott Trudeau, Montreal (gift from the artist, 1954).
Andrée Lavigne and Elliott Trudeau, Quebec (by descent from the above).

Specialist note

Grace Elliott Trudeau had often visited her brother, Gordon Elliott, a landscape architect who lived in Varengeville, France, and was a neighbor and friend of Braque. Her eldest son, Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1984.