id: 111395
accession number: 1929.897
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.897
updated: 2025-04-16 18:10:22.840000
The Saltimbanques: Salomé, 1905, printed 1913. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), Louis Fort (French, active 1800s–1900s), Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867–1939). Etching and drypoint; image and plate: 40.2 x 34.7 cm (15 13/16 x 13 11/16 in.); sheet: 63.5 x 50 cm (25 x 19 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1929.897. © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
title: Salomé
title in original language:
series: The Saltimbanques
series in original language:
creation date: 1905, printed 1913
creation date earliest: 1905
creation date latest: 1905
current location:
creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund
copyright: © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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culture: Spain, 20th century
technique: etching and drypoint
department: Prints
collection: PR - Drypoint
type: Print
find spot:
catalogue raisonne: Bloch 14; Palau i Fabre 1128; Geiser/Baer I.43.17 (Baer addendum p. 13);
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CREATORS
* Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) - artist
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973), the most prolific and influential artist of the 20th century, shifted the emphasis of art from its traditional concern with beauty toward radical innovation. The son of an art teacher, Picasso demonstrated remarkable talents as a child and entered the royal art academy in Madrid at age sixteen. Less than a year later, he abandoned his studies and soon joined several avant-garde artist and anarchist groups in Barcelona and Paris. After passing through a succession of stylistic periods, most notably the Blue (1901-1904) and Rose (1904-1906) Periods, he collaborated with Georges Braque (1882-1963) in 1908 to invent Cubism, a revolutionary method of restructuring pictorial space. Picasso remained active until his death in 1973. Although his art still appears radical, many of his works are over one hundred years old. Cubism, perhaps the most important development in 20th-century art, was invented around 1908 by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Georges Braque (1882-1963). The most revolutionary aspect of the style was not its obvious emphasis on geometric form; rather, it was the introduction of a radically new approach to configuring pictorial space. Since the Renaissance, artists had used various methods to create the illusion of distant space receding behind the canvas surface. The Cubists rejected that idea and collapsed space by compressing foreground, middle ground, and background into a continuous web of overlapping, intersecting planes. During the 1910s, other painters and sculptors embraced or adapted Cubism to their own ends. This revolutionary approach inspired a host of related movements and continues to influence the visual language of artists, architects, and designers throughout the world.
* Louis Fort (French, active 1800s–1900s) - printer
* Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867–1939) - publisher
French art dealer and publisher, 1867-1939
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measurements: Image and Plate: 40.2 x 34.7 cm (15 13/16 x 13 11/16 in.); Sheet: 63.5 x 50 cm (25 x 19 11/16 in.)
state of the work: IIIb2/III (Geiser/Baer)
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inscriptions:
inscription: Signed, upper right, in plate: Picasso / 1905
translation:
remark:
inscription: Watermark: VAN GELDER ZONEN
translation:
remark:
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Contemporary European Prints from the Museum Collection
opening date: 1939-07-18T04:00:00
Contemporary European Prints from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-September 6, 1939).
title: Picasso and Paper
opening date: 2024-12-08T05:00:00
Picasso and Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (December 8, 2024-March 23, 2025).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Dumas, Ann. "The Rose Period." In Picasso and Paper. William H. Robinson, et al., 80-101. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2020.
page number: Reproduced: P. 88, cat. no. 60
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