Fruit Dish

Painting by Georges Braque

Fruit Dish (1908-1909) by Georges Braque

Fruit Dish (French: Le Compotier) is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1908–1909 by Georges Braque. It has the dimensions of 53 by 64 cm. It his held at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.[1]

After becoming influenced by Paul Cézanne, Braque went to embrace cubism in 1908, due to the influence of Pablo Picasso. This cubist still life depicts apples, pears, a lemon and perhaps a banana in and around a fruit bowl on a table. The still life became a usual theme for cubist painters. In this painting, where the influence of Cézanne and Picasso is apparent, the fruits and the bowl expand beyond the confines of a singular viewpoint, and the traditional notions of perspective are dissolved.[2][3]

## References

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1. ^ Fruit Dish, Moderna Museet
2. ^ Fruit Dish, Moderna Museet
3. ^ Russell T. Clement, Georges Braque: A Bio-bibliography, Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1994

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Georges Braque

Paintings|

* Seascape. L'Estaque (1906)
* The Viaduct at L'Estaque (1907)
* Houses at l'Estaque (1908)
* Fruit Dish (1908–09)
* Fishing Boats (1909)
* Mandora (1909–10)
* Pitcher and Violin (1909–10)
* Woman with a Mandolin (1910)
* Still Life (1911)
* The Guitar (1912)
* Concert (1937)
* The Birds (1952–1953)

Papier collé|

* Fruit Dish and Glass (1912)

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* Cubism

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