Basket of Anemones

Basket of Anemones — Georges Braque. 1924.

Medium: oil on canvas. Dimensions: Unframed: 21 x 65.4 cm (8 1/4 x 25 3/4 in.).

Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

In the early 1920s, Braque painted a series of still lifes notable for their focus on a few objects compressed into a dense space. This still life features a brown wicker basket with five or six flowers packed into a horizontal format. The basket dominates the space by its size and central placement. The absence of a conventional foreground is striking. Rather than recede into space, the tabletop is tilted upright so it exists on the same vertical plane as the gray wall. A decorator’s comb was used to create the wood grain pattern in the tabletop.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.