Etching on vélin Johannot d’Arches paper. Paper size: 15.25 x 11.5 inches. Excellent condition. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Paroles peintes I, 1962. Published by Éditions O. Lazar-Vernet, Paris, under the direction of Odette Lazar-Vernet, Paris; printed by Maitres Imprimeurs, en Taille-Douce Capelle-Lacouriere, Leblanc-Robbe-Visat, Paris, December 5, 1962. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), Printing completed, December 5, 1962 on the presses of the Maitres Imprimeurs, en Taille-Douce Capelle-Lacouriere Leblanc-Robbe-Visat for engravings, and for typography, on the presses of the Maitre Imprimeur, Theo Schmied; Jacques David, providing the layout for this portfolio with fourteen original etchings and fourteen unpublished poems, two hundred examples were drawn of which, 1 example on papier japon nacré, bearing the number 1, accompanied by a suite on papier japon of etchings signed by the artists, a second deuxième suite of 13 etchings from engraved, striped and inked coppers; 14 examples on papier japon nacré, numbered from 2 to 15, accompanied by a suite of the 14 etchings on papier japon signed by the artists, a second suite of 13 deuxième etchings; 35 examples on papier Auvergne by hand, numbered from 16 to 50, accompanied by a suite of the 14 etchings on Richard-de-Bas, signed by the artists; 150 examples on papier Johannot, numbered from 51 to 200. In addition, it was shot on Johannot 28 non-trade nominative examples, marked H.C. From 1 to 28; 5 examples numbered for employees from I to V; and, in large format, 25 examples of all engravings numbered from I to XXV reserved for the artists. GEORGES BRAQUE (1882-1963) was a major 20th-century French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His most notable contributions were in his alliance with Fauvism from 1905, and the role he played in the development of Cubism. Braque's work between 1908 and 1912 is closely associated with that of his colleague Pablo Picasso. Their respective Cubist works were indistinguishable for many years, yet the quiet nature of Braque was partially eclipsed by the fame and notoriety of Picasso.