The masterpiece of French artists Georges Braque "Still Life with a Bottle" will delight Bulgarian art lovers as of November 1.

The masterpiece is part of the collection of the Museum Picasso in Paris. It belonged to Picasso himself.

"Still Life with a Bottle" is representative from the history of Cubism and its early period. It goes back to the time when Braque and Picasso form the main principles of Cubism and paint together, without signing them.

The painting "Still Life with a Bottle" will be presented in Bulgaria due to an exchange between the National Foreign Art Gallery and the Paris museum.

Georges Braque developed his painting skills while working for his father, a house decorator. He moved to Paris in 1900 to study where he was drawn to the work of the Fauve artists, including Matisse, Derain and Dufy, as well as the late landscapes of Cézanne.

Meeting Picasso marked a huge turning point in Braque's development and together they evolved as leaders of Cubism. After a brief interlude in which he was called up to fight in the World War I, Braque's style developed in the direction he was to follow for the rest of his life. In establishing the principle that a work of art should be autonomous and not merely imitate nature, Cubism redefined art in the twentieth century.

Braque's large compositions incorporated the Cubist aim of representing the world as seen from a number of different viewpoints. He wanted to convey a feeling of being able to move around within the painting. The still life subject remained his chief preoccupation from 1927 to 1955.

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