GEORGES BRAQUE (French 1882-1963)
Eosphoros
An important art jewel brooch
Source piece, February 1963
Signed: G. Braque, Heger de Lowenfeld, no. 23
Clip brooch in gold, set with pink topaz and diamond
Length: 6.5cm  Width: 5cm 
91 brilliant cut diamonds pave set, 3.5 cts approx, ranging from 0.02 cts to 0.10 cts
surrounded by 16 topaz baguettes 4 cts approx
Exhibition History: Paris, Musee du Louvre Cent Bijoux de Georges Braque March 21st 1963

Literature: Metamorphoses de Braque, Raphael de Cuttoli
Baron Heger de Loewenfeld, 1989, illustrated p.64

113 wonderful jewels were created by Georges Braque in the last year of his life, in collaboration with his friend Baron Heger de Loewenfeld, lapidary and gem cutter. Braque had longed to translate the major themes of his paintings into three-dimensional art objects. The jewels are therefore the embodiment of the last adventure of this great artist’s life.
In ‘Eosphoros’ the bird, Braque’s symbol of Space and Time, was freed from its caged existence within a picture frame. The jewels were exhibited to great critical acclaim at the Musee de Louvre in March 1963 under the title ‘Cent Bijoux de Georges Braque’.
Le Monde referred to the jewels as ‘short poems’. The New York Herald Tribune wrote; ‘(the pieces) are simple, devastatingly beautiful and have the mystery of Braque symbols at their best’

Collections Include: Guggenheim Museum, New York;
Louvre Museum, Paris; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany; Musée d'Art Moderne, Lille, France; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan; Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California; Tate Gallery, London; Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid