Still Life with Fish

Georges Braque collaborated closely with Pablo Picasso in working out an approach to painting that would result in Cubism. Whereas Picasso would go on to develop a spectacular series of personal styles, Braque continued to increase his mastery of Cubism’s vocabulary of form, freely superimposing and combining different views of the same object.

This painting is one of Braque’s “kitchen still lifes” painted during World War II, which Braque spent in occupied Paris. Its rich combinations of texture and ornament are rendered with a perfect balance of harmony between color and design.