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(Redirected from Mandola (painting)) Painting by Georges Braque
Mandora
Mandora
ArtistGeorges Braque
Year1909–10
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions71.1 cm × 55.9 cm (28.0 in × 22.0 in)
LocationTate Modern, London

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.

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".

References

  1. ^ Mandora description, Tate Modern
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