Raoul Ubac. Original lithograph, 1964 Untitled.
Created for the 'Hommage' edition of DLM to Georges Braque.
Following the death of Braque in 1963, a special edition of Derriere Le Miroir was published in 1964 to commemorate the life of the artist. Noted artists of the day were asked to contribute lithographs for this editon, and this one was created by Raoul Ubac.
Raoul Ubac (31 August 1910 – 22 March 1985) was a French painter, sculptor, photographer and engraver.
He had various and irregular artistic training and travelled in Europe between 1928 and 1934. He worked mostly on photography between 1934 and 1942, embraced Surrealism in Paris and took photos for "Minotaure", a surrealist oriented magazine founded in 1933.
Ubac's mother's family ran a tannery and his father was a magistrate. In his early years he travelled through some parts of Europe on foot, first coming to Paris in 1928. He was already enrolled at the Sorbonne for a degree in literary studies when he decided to switch to the Art Academy of Montparnasse. It was there that he moved in the company of the Surrealists.
