"Gélinotte" is a 1960 color lithograph by Georges Braque. The work has full margins and measures 9 x 13 inches. A very good impression [Vallier 149], the work was published by Maeght, Paris and comes in a custom made frame.

Georges Braque first engaged in lithography in 1921, enticed by the broad possibilities the medium offered. Lithography, while requiring drawing, is more aligned with painting and color. Braque's early lithographs echo the color schemes of his paintings, employing browns, blacks and yellows. After a hiatus from lithography, Braque resumed the process from 1945 until his death. Unlike his etchings and earlier lithographs, Braque restrains stone grain from his lithographs, focusing on color with strokes deliberately thick, massive and painterly.

Braque used flat tint in his lithographs, using pure colors, allowing the work to remain legible. He embraced a chromatic range much brighter than that of his paintings, using violets, yellows, bright reds and ultramarine, but still occasionally falling into more subdued harmonies such as black with brown or dark blue with gray. At the same time, Braque attempted to enrich the flat tint or enrich color saturation by means of chromatic superimposition, hence the large number of impressions required. Twelve colors were successively applied to 'Gelinotte' (Mourlot states that this lithograph was "in the workshop for several years" and that it is comprised "of a dozen colors"). The eye does not distinguish these once the work is completed but perceives them as pure intensity - from Vallier.

"Gélinotte" is in a Roma 'Museo" Renaissance black 28 7/8" x 33 5/8" frame with an intense red and brown over a gold base patina; with colors echoing those in the lithograph. The outer camel linen, middle Beveled Accent ivory black and inner 8-ply khaki mats are acid and lignin free and protected with Acrylite-AR OP3 (UV) by CYRO.