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Georges Braque was born in 1882 in Argenteuil (Val-d'Oise department), France. At the age of eight, his family moved to Le Havre, where he grew up in the port city. He first learned the craft of decorative painting, which was his family's business, and then studied painting at the Le Havre School of Art.
In 1905, he was deeply impacted by the Fauvist works he saw at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, and for a while, he produced paintings influenced by them. However, in 1907, his art took a significant turn when he encountered Pablo Picasso's revolutionary work, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon."
Braque began to explore new forms of expression in close collaboration with Picasso. Around 1908, the critic Louis Vauxcelles described Braque's landscape paintings from L'Estaque as "little cubes," and eventually, this new style came to be known as **Cubism**. Braque and Picasso worked together closely until 1914, bringing about a major revolution in 20th-century art.
During World War I, Braque was mobilized and suffered a severe head injury on the battlefield. After a long period of convalescence, he developed a more poetic and tranquil style of painting after the war, while retaining the principles of Cubism. In the 1920s, as seen in works like "Still Life with Fruit Dish and Tablecloth," he established his unique style characterized by sophisticated composition and color.
He continued to produce still lifes, series of studio interiors, and works with birds as a theme, earning high acclaim as a leading master of 20th-century French painting.
Braque passed away in Paris on August 31, 1963, and was honored with a state funeral by the French government. His remains are buried in the seaside cemetery of Varengeville-sur-Mer in Normandy, where he spent his later years.