"Like the alcoholic who takes his little glass in the morning," the old man once said, "I take up my brushes." Though frail, Georges Braque still takes up his brushes each morning in his Paris studio near the Pare de Montsouris. He may work standing for a while; more often, he sits grandly on a divan and calls for his brushes and colors like a surgeon calling for his scalpels and clamps. This week he will be 80—the same age as his ebullient former partner, Pablo Picasso.
Though Picasso's pyrotechnics are certainly more dazzling, Braque ranks as one of the great innovators...
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