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Georges Braque

Still Life, 1918

Now On View

Description

Maker

  • Georges Braque, 1882-1963, French

Title

Still Life

Year

1918

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

46.4 x 72.1 cm (18 1/4 x 28 3/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed on reverse:G. Braque '18

Place

France

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

48.248

Projects & Publications

Publications

Manual / Issue 2

Loreum Ipsum
Read Online

European Paintings and Sculpture, ca. 1770 - 1937

A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Exchange Exhibition, Exhibition Exchange

From the Collection of Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; From the Collection of The Museum of Art, Rhode

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Celebrating the Jewish Contribution to Twentieth-Century American Art

November 12, 2004 - March 5, 2005

Better Still

February 6 - May 2, 2004

"The Center Cannot Hold"

March 1 - July 1, 1999

Cubism and Its Affinities

September 1 - December 10, 1995

From the Reserve III

July 8 - December 4, 1994

European Painting and Sculpture, circa 1770-1937

October 18, 1991 - January 26, 1992

Exchange Exhibition of Paintings from Rose Museum, Brandeis University

February 16 - April 2, 1967

Five Modern Old Masters

October 25 - November 26, 1950

European Galleries

In this painting, Braque represents a tilted table top on which he has placed a plate of fruit, a textile fragment, and a folded newspaper. By superimposing their flat, geometric shapes on a diamond-shaped field pierced with shaded openings, he mimics the effect of collage, in which scraps of paper and fabric might be glued to a surface then painted or left untouched. He playfully extends the green textile’s decorative pattern of red dots onto the rim of the platter. Through subtle subversions of mass and spatial relationships, he transforms a traditional still-life motif into a two-dimensional abstraction.

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Still Life with the accession number of 48.248. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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