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Georges Braque (May 13, 1882 – August 31,
1963) was a France|French painter and sculptor,
and with Pablo Picasso one of the inventors of
Cubism.

Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil-sur-Seine,
France. He grew up in Le Havre and studied in the
evenings at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts from about
1897 to 1899.

He studied in Paris under a master decorator and
was awarded his certificate of craftmanship in
1901. The following year he attended the Academie
Humbert and painted there until 1904. It was here
that he met Marie Laurencin and Francis Picabia.

His early work was impressionistic, but he soon
changed to a Fauvist style. In 1907, he exhibited
works in this style in the Salon des
Indépendants. From 1909 to 1911, he worked with
Picasso to develop Cubism. In 1912, they began to
experiment with collage and papier collé. Their
collaboration continued until 1914.

Braque was injured in the World War I|First World
War, after which he moved away from the harsher
abstraction of cubism, towards the hermetic and
synthetic forms — the most abstract forms of
cubism.

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