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Still Life with Banderillas

1911
Not on view
The complex arrangement of intersecting planes, letters, and fractured objects in Braque's work is virtually indistinguishable from Picasso's paintings of the same time. The two spent the summer of 1911 together in Céret, a small town popular with artists in the French Pyrenees, where they explored the formal elements of what later became known as Cubism. The banderillas of the title—wooden sticks with steel barbs used in bullfights—may have been included as a tribute to Picasso, since Braque himself was not a bullfighting enthusiast.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Still Life with Banderillas
  • Artist: Georges Braque (French, Argenteuil 1882–1963 Paris)
  • Date: 1911
  • Medium: Oil and charcoal with sand on canvas
  • Dimensions: 25 3/4 × 21 5/8 in. (65.4 × 54.9 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998
  • Object Number: 1999.363.11
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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