Nude Woman with Basket of Fruit
Georges Braque
1926
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 162 x 74.3 cm (63 3/4 x 29 1/4 in.) framed: 193.7 x 105.4 x 9.5 cm (76 1/4 x 41 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Chester Dale Collection
Accession Number
1963.10.88
About the Artist
Georges Braque
Georges Braque (1882–1963) was a French painter, collagist, and sculptor who, together with Pablo Picasso, invented Cubism — one of the most revolutionary developments in the history of Western art. Born in Argenteuil and raised in Le Havre, he initially trained as a house painter and decorator before studying fine art at the Académie Humbert and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Braque's early ...