Compotier, violin, bouteille

Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1914

Height:

92.0 cm  (36 1/4 in.)

Width:

73.0 cm  (28 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Place of creation:

Paris (France)

School:

Cubism

Additional titles

Description

"This table-top scene, with its fruit-bowl, violin, bottle and (painted) newspaper, is constructed from areas of colour that resemble cut-out pieces of paper. The background has been left white. Picasso and Braque had been making collages that experimented with representation and reality since 1912. They soon began to simulate the appearance of collage materials in their oil paintings, sometimes adding sand to the paint to give a heightened reality to the picture surface" (caption source: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/picasso-bowl-of-fruit-violin-and-bottle-l01895/text-display-caption)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573] (Representation of violin is fragmented and distorted, as is typical in the Cubist style.)

Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

3355