Braque was first led through his Cezannian obsession with the representation of space to paint Gueridon, 1913. At that time he was. above all, concerned with problems of volume, forms and how to represent space around them. In this painting, Braque followed Cezanne in establishing a "visual" space between the spectator and the nearest plane of the table, which he then spatially flattened by folding it upward across the middle. This Gueridon is spatially coherent and legible with the faceted objects being piled upward against a faceted background plane. However, nothing is within reach because we are looking at the table from a certain distance.