Henri Matisse and the Fauves

Georges Braque, Still Life: Le Jour, 1929, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Chester Dale Collection 1963.10.91

Also in 1907, Braque met Pablo Picasso. Braque returned to blended color, more muted tones, and to the gradations of light and dark that model forms. He began to render forms as volumes that were essentially geometric in conception—starting on the path that would lead him and Picasso to develop analytical cubism in the succeeding years.