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Still Life with Clarinet (Bottle and Clarinet)

Céret, summer–autumn 1911
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 829
The subject of this still life is not a clarinet as has often been thought, but a tenora, a Catalan woodwind instrument that Braque heard played by folk bands in the village of Céret in the French Pyrenees. The diagonally placed tenora rests on a rectangular tabletop, which is tilted up and rotated at an angle, its edges defined by long unbroken lines. The round knob of its front drawer appears at the base of the picture. The contours of the still-life objects, including a long-necked bottle at left and a stemmed glass at right, emerge from the luminous planes.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Still Life with Clarinet (Bottle and Clarinet)
  • Artist: Georges Braque (French, Argenteuil 1882–1963 Paris)
  • Date: Céret, summer–autumn 1911
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 25 1/2 × 19 3/4 in. (64.8 × 50.2 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection, Gift of Leonard A. Lauder, 2025
  • Object Number: 2025.616.14
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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