Georges Braque
Artwork Detail
George Braque was a painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. His close collaboration with Picasso resulted in a new movement that became known as Cubism. Rather than focusing on colour and light, Braque worked with a very shallow pictorial space and a subdued range of colour. La tasse is a superb example of this approach, breaking the painted surface of the canvas up into shards or fragments, rather like a jigsaw puzzle, which the viewer is invited to reconstruct.
- Title
- La tasse (The Cup)
- Artist/creator
- Georges Braque
- Production date
- 1912
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 240 x 330 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Julian and Josie Robertson through the Auckland Art Gallery Foundation, 2023
- Accession no
- 2023/6/9
- Other ID
- X2009/12/9 Former Exhibition Number
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- International Art
- Display status
- On display
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