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Le Compotier
© Georges Braque/Bildupphovsrätt 2026
Le Compotier
Le Compotier
Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet

Le Compotier

by Georges Braque
Artist (Frankrike, 1882 - 1963)
Alternate Title
  • Fruktskålen
  • The Fruit Bowl
Date1908
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsBildmått: 53 × 64 cm Ram: 63 × 74 × 5 cm
Classification
Countries
Credit LineDonation 1966 enligt testamente från Rolf de Maré
Object NumberNM 5984
CollectionsThe Rolf de Maré Collection
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkAfter being profoundly influenced by a major memorial exhibition of Paul Cézanne in Paris in 1907, Georges Braque gave up his rich, fauvist palette for more subdued hues to emphasise form rather than colour. In spring 1908, Braque and Pablo Picasso embarked on a close artistic dialogue that soon gave rise to cubism. The still life became a popular theme among cubists, as it is based on familiar and ordinary things that could be made abstract. The fruits in “The Fruit Bowl” fill the entire canvas; the bowl spreads to the extent that it is hard to envision the physical space it exists in, which is exactly what Braque was after. In this way, Braque dissolves the perspective that he always claimed was false in relation to reality. Selected exhibition history Mästerverken åter. Verk av spanska konstnärer ur Samling S. runt den återbördade Picassos Källan. (1995) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Ny presentation av samlingen (2000-2002) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Scenbyte: verk ur Moderna Museets Samling av Dardel, Matisse, Abdul-Hadi, Hjertén och Léger m.fl. (den 15 oktober 2011 - den 5 februari 2012) Moderna Museet Malmö Önskemuseet (1963-1964) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Den tidiga modernismen: 1900-1920 ur Moderna Museets samling (den 19 mars 2011 - den 2 oktober 2011) Moderna Museet Malmö Samlingsutställning 2004 - 2011 - I vår tid (2004 - 2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Mästerverken åter! Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [6 maj - 27 augusti 1995]Önskemuseet : the museum of our wishes : notre musée tel qu´il devrait être : museum unserer wünsche : [utställning i Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 26 december 1963 - 16 februari 1964] / ordnad av Moderna Museets VännerThe Masterpieces are back! : Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [May 6th - August 27th 1995] Bibliography Die Freunde I, 1920, ill. s 152. Isarlov, 1932, nr. 44. Cahiers d'Art, 1933, ill. s 16. Hope, Henry R, Georges Braque, New York 1949, ill. s 36. Fry, s 66, s 17. Gieure, Maurice, G. Braque, Editions Pierre Tisné, Paris 1956, ill. nr. 19. Russel, John, G. Braque, London 1959, ill. nr. 9. Vinca Massini, Lara, Georges Braque, Florens 1969, kat. nr. 7, s 15, ill. s 13. Valsecchi, Marco, L'opera completa di Braque 1908-1929, Rizzoli Editore, Milano 1971, kat. nr 37, ill (färg) tav. IV-V, s 87. Descargues och Carrà, 1973, s 88. Cogniat, 1976, ill. s 82. Worms och Laude, Braque Cubism 1907-1914, Paris 1982, nr. 35, ill. s 90. Georges Braque en Europe, 1982, nr. 17. The Essential Cubism, London 1983, nr. 5. Golding, J., utan årtal, s 61. Picasso & Braque: Kubisme 1907-1914, Köpenhamn 1993, s 50, ill. s 51. Taube, Maria, Kärleken och döden: Konst på Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2002, s 12, ill. s 13.