| Mandora | |
| Artist: | Georges Braque |
| Year: | 1909–10 |
| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Height Metric: | 71.1 |
| Width Metric: | 55.9 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| City: | London |
Mandora (originally titled La Mandore) is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Georges Braque, painted in 1909–10. It is in the Tate Modern, in London, which purchased it in 1966.
It is acknowledged as a masterpiece of analytical cubism It presents a string instrument, the mandora, and its subject is typical of the Cubist painters interest in the depiction of musical instruments. Braque explained his own interest: "In the first place because I was surrounded by them, and secondly because their plasticity, their volumes, related to my particular concept of still life".[1]