Nude Woman with Fruit
Georges Braque
1925
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 100.3 x 81.3 cm (39 1/2 x 32 in.) framed: 127.6 x 108.3 x 8.8 cm (50 1/4 x 42 5/8 x 3 7/16 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Chester Dale Collection
Accession Number
1963.10.89
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 ...