Georges Braque

Trained as a decorative house painter in Le Havre, Braque was initially a Fauve painter before Paul Cézanne's 1907 retrospective and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon catalyzed a radical artistic revolution. In 1908, art critic Louis Vauxcelles described Braque's landscape of L'Estaque as 'full of little cubes', giving birth to the name Cubism.

Working in intimate daily communion with Picasso ('like two mountain climbers roped together'), Braque created Analytical and Synthetic Cubism and invented pasted paper collage (papier collé) in 1912 with Fruit Dish and Glass. In 1961, he became the first living artist in history to have a solo exhibition in the Louvre Museum.