Still Life with Fish
Artist: Georges Braque (French, 1882 - 1963)
Date: 1941
Dimensions:
Painting: 23 5/8 × 28 3/4 in. (60 × 73 cm)
Frame: 34 1/4 × 39 1/2 × 3 in. (87 × 100.3 × 7.6 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1947.60
Label Text:Georges Braque collaborated closely with Pablo Picasso in working out an approach to painting that would result in Cubism. Whereas Picasso would go on to develop a spectacular series of personal styles, Braque continued to increase his mastery and free use of Cubism’s vocabulary of form, superimposing and combining different views of the same object.
This painting is one of Braque’s “kitchen still lifes” painted during World War II, which Braque spent in occupied Paris. Its rich combinations of texture and ornament are rendered with a perfect balance of harmony between color and design.
This painting is one of Braque’s “kitchen still lifes” painted during World War II, which Braque spent in occupied Paris. Its rich combinations of texture and ornament are rendered with a perfect balance of harmony between color and design.
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