.jpg "TMCA Director Majid Mollanoruzi (L) receives “Soleil et Lune II”, a lithograph by French artist Georges Braque, that Iranian collector Saeid Kanani (R) donated to the TMCA on October 26, 2014.")
TEHRAN — U.S based Iranian private collector Saeid Kanani has donated “Soleil et Lune II”, a lithograph by French artist Georges Braque (1881-1963) to the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMCA).
Kanani handed the 1959 lithograph in color to TMCA Director Majid Mollanoruzi to be later displayed in the museum, the museum announced in a press release on Monday.
The museum already houses over 10 artworks by Braque.
A prominent figure in the development of cubism, Georges Braque was a French painter and sculptor.
Braque’s early works were impressionistic, but he transitioned into a fauvist style after seeing work exhibited by the Fauves in 1905.
The development of cubism came shortly after Braque met and began working with Pablo Picasso in 1909.
Both artists produced representative paintings with a monochromatic color scheme and interlocking blocks and complex forms.
The ultimate result of their time together was the development of a new style of painting, Analytic Cubism.
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