Mandora (originally titled La Mandore) is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Georges Braque, painted in 1909–10.
It is in the Tate Modern, in London, which purchased it in 1966.
[1] It is acknowledged as a masterpiece of analytical cubism It presents a string instrument, the mandora, and its subject is typical of the Cubist painters' interest in the depiction of musical instruments.
Braque explained his own interest: "In the first place because I was surrounded by them, and secondly because their plasticity, their volumes, related to my particular concept of still life".
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