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Fruit Dish and Glass

Sorgues, autumn 1912
Not on view
According to Braque, this was his first papier collé, created in September 1912 with mass-produced faux bois wallpaper purchased in Avignon. To gain a surreptitious advantage over his partner and rival, Braque waited until Picasso had left Avignon for Paris before beginning to incorporate strips from the roll into his charcoal drawings. The machine-printed wallpaper was designed to be a cheap alternative to artisan-painted imitation wood, which was itself a cheaper alternative to real tongue-and-groove oak paneling. By using the three offcuts to frame his hand-drawn still life, Braque merged bargain-basement trompe l’oeil and avant-garde Cubist abstraction.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Fruit Dish and Glass
  • Artist: Georges Braque (French, Argenteuil 1882–1963 Paris)
  • Date: Sorgues, autumn 1912
  • Medium: Charcoal and cut-and-pasted printed wallpaper with gouache on white laid paper; subsequently mounted on paperboard
  • Dimensions: 24 3/4 × 18 in. (62.9 × 45.7 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection, Gift of Leonard A. Lauder, 2016
  • Object Number: 2016.237.33
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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