100 euro - Georges Braque
Series: France - Great Painters
![Image of 100 euro coin - Georges Braque | France 2010. The Gold coin is of Proof quality. Image of 100 euro coin - Georges Braque | France 2010. The Gold coin is of Proof quality.](/images/France/2129-v.jpg)
After featuring four great Impressionist painters, Monnaie de Paris is now paying tribute to modernist painters. Georges Braque (1882-1963), a French painter and sculptor. His initial work was influenced by Impressionism but he then started to develop a new system of representation based around simplifying shapes into geometric forms and flattening perspectives.
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