Fruit Dish

Fruit Dish (French: Le Compotier) is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1908–1909 by Georges Braque.

[1] After becoming influenced by Paul Cézanne, Braque went to embrace cubism in 1908, due to the influence of Pablo Picasso.

This cubist still life depicts apples, pears, a lemon and perhaps a banana in and around a fruit bowl on a table.

The still life became a usual theme for cubist painters.

In this painting, where the influence of Cézanne and Picasso is apparent, the fruits and the bowl expand beyond the confines of a singular viewpoint, and the traditional notions of perspective are dissolved.