#still-life

He painted so many of these letter-rack scenes that forgers later scrubbed off his signature and added a rival's, since that name sold better.

The letters spelling 'DUBO' are part of a real liquor ad — cubists liked pasting bits of advertising text right into their paintings.

For decades he mostly made dark, unsettling charcoal prints — this bright, ordinary bouquet came from a total swing late in his career.

He kept African and Pacific carvings around his studio and painted them into scenes like this one — the bowl in the title is one of them.