The Portuguese

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The Portuguese is a seminal 1911 Cubist painting by Georges Braque that exemplifies the movement’s fragmented forms and multiple perspectives.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Cubist painting
painting
artForm oil on canvas
artHistoricalPeriod early 20th century art
artMovementContext Parisian avant-garde
artworkSurface canvas
cataloguedAs key work of Analytical Cubism
collection Kunstmuseum Basel collection
completionYear 1911
countryOfOrigin France
creationPlace Paris
creator Georges Braque
creatorBirthName Georges Braque
creatorNationality French
depicts Portuguese musician
exemplifies Cubism
surface form: Analytical Cubism

Cubist deconstruction of form
exhibitedAt Kunstmuseum Basel permanent collection
genre abstract art
hasArtisticTechnique faceting of forms
integration of typography into image
simultaneous viewpoints
suppression of depth
hasInfluenceOn development of abstract painting
subsequent Cubist artists
hasStyle geometric fragmentation
limited color range
overlapping planes
hasTitle L’Allemand (Le Portugais)
The Portuguese self-link
inception 1911
influencedBy Pablo Picasso’s early Cubist works
languageOfTitle English
location Kunstmuseum Basel
madeIn France
materialUsed oil paint
movement Cubism
movementCharacteristic fragmented forms
monochromatic palette
multiple perspectives
movementPhase Cubism
surface form: Analytical Cubism
notableFor high degree of abstraction
seminal role in Cubism
use of stenciled letters and numbers
originalTitleLanguage French
partOf early Cubist oeuvre of Georges Braque
subjectMatter figure with guitar

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Georges Braque notableWork The Portuguese
The Portuguese hasTitle The Portuguese self-link