From "Le tir à l'arc" Possibly 1960

Georges Braque made this print called "From 'Le tir à l'arc'," with a light hand and a kind of casual confidence. Look at the paper—it’s got that deckle edge, which suggests it's handmade. Braque used a limited palette of soft grays and whites. He seemed to be feeling his way through the forms, letting the shapes emerge through repetition and a series of light gestures. See how the petals of the flowers, or whatever they are, are not quite defined, as if still in the process of becoming. I imagine Braque, thinking about the way shapes can suggest a sense of lightness and grace. I can see him experimenting with different ways of arranging the composition, pushing and pulling the forms until they found their delicate balance. You can see that he isn't just representing an image, but using the act of printing to arrive at something new. I think of other painters who did the same, like Manet. Artists are always inspiring each other, aren’t they? Painting is always a conversation like that, open to infinite interpretation.