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Description: Still Life with Glass and Lemon

TitleStill Life with Glass and Lemon

Creator namePicasso, Pablo

Creator nationality/cultureSpanish

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1910

Creation date (description)Summer 1910

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationCincinnati Art Museum

https://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/explore-the-collection?id=11297288

Accession number1967.1428

SubjectsPainting, Spanish--20th centuryCubismStill-life painting, Spanish

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2. Spaces

Pepe Karmel

Picasso and the Invention of Cubism

Hidden among the geometric planes of Picasso’s summer 1910 painting, Still Life with Glass and Lemon (fig. 12), the attentive viewer will discover a wineglass, a pedestal fruit bowl, and a lemon, resting on a table (fig. 13). The composition recalls numerous still lifes by Cézanne, with their characteristic...

Author

Pepe Karmel

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.23-47

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00295.2

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Chapter subject tags:Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973Braque, Georges, 1882-1963Cubism (Art)Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--France--HistoryPainting, French--20th century

1. Ideas

Pepe Karmel

Picasso and the Invention of Cubism

In spring 1912 a journalist visited Picasso’s dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Kahnweiler’s first impulse was to send him away. He did not want his artists held up to mockery in the popular press. The journalist, Jacques de Gachons, persisted. He was writing an article about “The Art of the Future.” It would begin with Cézanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh and follow the...

Author

Pepe Karmel

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-21

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00295.1

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Chapter subject tags:Braque, Georges, 1882-1963Kahnweiler, Daniel Henry, 1884-1979Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973Impressionism (Art)Post-impressionism (Art)Cubism (Art)Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--France--History

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