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Georges Braque Biography
Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise.
He grew up in Le Havre and trained to be a house painter and decorator like his father and grandfather. However, he also studied serious painting in the evenings at the École des Beaux-Arts, in Le Havre, from about to In Paris, he apprenticed with a decorator and was awarded his certificate in The following year, he attended the Académie Humbert, also in Paris, and painted there until It was here that he met Marie Laurencin and Francis Picabia.
He received his education in Le Havre, together with friend and fellow artist Raoul Dufy.
His earliest works were impressionistic, but after seeing the work exhibited by the Fauves in , Braque adopted a Fauvist style. The Fauves, a group that included Henri Matisse and André Derain among others, used brilliant colors and loose structures of forms to capture the most intense emotional response.
Braque worked most closely with the artists Raoul Dufy and Othon Friesz, who shared Braque's hometown of Le Havre, to develop a somewhat more subdued Fauvist