Phaethon (Chariot I)

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Artist Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963)

Title Phaethon (Chariot I) (Phaéton (Char I))

Date 1945

Medium Color lithograph on paper

Dimensions Image: 12 x 17 in. (30.4 x 43.2 cm.)
Sheet: 17 7/8 x 23 7/16 (45.3 x 59.5 cm.)

Credit Line Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 48.1

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This print—Georges Braque's first post-war lithograph and the first in a series of images exploring the motif of the chariot driver—reflects his continuing interest in Greek styles and themes, particularly from the early Geometric and Archaic periods. Many of these images feature the sun-god Helios or his son Phaeton, who was said to have nearly set the earth on fire while attempting to drive his father's chariot to the sun, before being struck down by Zeus's thunderbolt. Braque produced six other chariot prints, including "Greek Chariot" also in the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Art Museum's collection (71.112.3).

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Publisher Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris
Printer Mourlot Imp., Paris

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