Fruit Dish and Glass (1912), by the French artist Georges Braque, is the first papier collé (pasted paper, colloquially known as collage).

[1][2] Braque and Pablo Picasso made many other works in this medium, which is generally credited as a key turning point in Cubism.

Braque was inspired to create this piece after visiting an Avignon shop where he purchased a roll of faux bois paper, simulating oak paneling and consisting of two kinds of printed motifs on a dark beige background, while traveling with Picasso and his companion, Eva Gouel, in Sorgues.

Braque may have been drawn to this paper because he was trained in a technique called trompe-l'œil; which allowed him to create pictorial effects that resemble woodgrain and marble finishes, but are made with paint and a special wide comb.

Braque probably began the work by cutting out pieces of wallpaper and moving them around a flat surface to imagine his composition.

He then might have positioned two strips of the wood grain wallpaper vertically on a large sheet of white paper to signify the walls of a café.

The use of collage is usually credited with changing the face of cubism from analytic to synthetic, in which multiple systems of representation were used in a single canvas.