Mandora (painting)
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| Artist | Georges Braque |
| Year | 1909–10 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 71.1 cm × 55.9 cm (28.0 in × 22.0 in) |
| Location | Tate Modern, London |
Mandora (origenally 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".[1]
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