Together with Picasso, Georges Braque invented a new pictorial treatment of space and perspective that came to be known as Cubism. This colorful painting presents a still life made up of elements typically found in Cubist paintings of the early twentieth century: a large fruit dish, a glass, a newspaper, a pipe, and pieces of fruit arranged on a wooden table. Created in the mid-1930s, Still Life with a Fruit Dish is a collage-like composition in which each element is rendered in jagged lines, accentuated by the design of the pink, black, green, red, and yellow fabrics surrounding the table. Although reminiscent of Braque's earlier Cubist works, this large-scale still life is much more colorful than these paintings, which were usually rendered in more muted tones. In Still Life with a Fruit Dish, Braque integrated foreground and background into a unified complex whole, so all objects seem to share a single plane. This still life exemplifies Braque's poetic reinterpretation of Cubism later in his career. Emily Hage, from Masterpieces from the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Impressionism and Modern Art (2007), p. 124.