Head of a Horse

Georges Braque

1941

Bronze

Dallas Museum of Art

Like his friend Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque produced a significant body of drawings, prints, and sculptures in addition to his well-known paintings. This work is the largest of a group of horse sculptures that Braque made between 1939 and 1941. Inspired by ancient Etruscan art, he drastically simplified the animal’s distinctive features in a bold, linear style. The rough, textured surface reveals the artist’s hands-on modeling of the sculpture. Braque typically began these works in limestone, clay, or plaster before having them cast in bronze or zinc in an edition of ten. Head of a Horse must have held personal significance for Br