id: 111396 accession number: 1929.898 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.898 updated: 2025-02-08 23:55:17.322000 The Saltimbanques: The Barbaric Dance (Before Salomé and Herod), 1905, printed 1913. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), Louis Fort (French, active 1800s–1900s), Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867–1939). Drypoint; image and plate: 18.5 x 23.1 cm (7 5/16 x 9 1/8 in.); sheet: 33.7 x 50.6 cm (13 1/4 x 19 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1929.898 © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: The Barbaric Dance (Before Salomé and Herod) title in original language: series: The Saltimbanques series in original language: creation date: 1905, printed 1913 creation date earliest: 1905 creation date latest: 1913 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: Spain, 20th century technique: drypoint department: Prints collection: PR - Drypoint type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Geiser/Baer I.45.18; Bloch 15 --- 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 --- measurements: Image and Plate: 18.5 x 23.1 cm (7 5/16 x 9 1/8 in.); Sheet: 33.7 x 50.6 cm (13 1/4 x 19 15/16 in.) state of the work: b2 (Geiser/Baer) edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Watermark: [VAN GELD]ER ZONEN translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Exhibition of the Month: Ways of Drawing Nudes opening date: 1945-01-30T04:00:00 Exhibition of the Month: Ways of Drawing Nudes. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-June 6, 1945). title: Graphic Humor opening date: 1982-06-01T04:00:00 Graphic Humor. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 1-August 29, 1982). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES