Mandora (painting)

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.^[1]

Mandora
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

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]