Collection connections
Picasso
2.1980 |
Not on display
Georges Braque, et al.
Landscape with houses Winter 1908-1909
The artistic collaboration between Braque and Picasso produced modern art’s greatest stylistic invention – cubism. Braque described how ‘it often happened that amateurs mistook Picasso’s paintings for mine and mine for Picasso’s. This was a matter of indifference to us because we were primarily interested in our work and in the new problem it presented.’ While Landscape with houses reveals the clear influence of Cézanne in their early artistic collaboration, another work in the collection, Glass of absinthe, is typical of the ‘analytical’ cubist style of the early 1910s – a simple still life described in scaffolded lines, subtle shading and a reduced palette of grey and ochre.