Fruit Dish

Fruit Dish (French: "Le Compotier") is a oil on canvas painting by Georges Braque, executed in 1908-1909. It has the dimensions of 53 by 64 cm. It his held at the Moderna Museet, in Stockholm.
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 obvious, the fruits went to fill the entire canvas, the bowl is spreaded beyond his physical space, and the traditional notions of perspective are dissolved.