id: 142653 accession number: 1966.377 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.377 updated: 2022-09-22 10:07:18.252000 The Artist's Sister Lola, 1899–1900. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). Oil on canvas; framed: 62.5 x 54 x 8 cm (24 5/8 x 21 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.); unframed: 46.7 x 37.5 cm (18 3/8 x 14 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David S. Ingalls 1966.377 © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: The Artist's Sister Lola title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1899–1900 creation date earliest: 1899 creation date latest: 1900 current location: 223 20th Century Avant-Garde creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David S. Ingalls copyright: © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: Spain, 20th century technique: oil on canvas department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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. --- measurements: Framed: 62.5 x 54 x 8 cm (24 5/8 x 21 1/4 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 46.7 x 37.5 cm (18 3/8 x 14 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower left: "P. Ruiz Picasso-"; [signed upper left: "Ruiz Picasso"] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1967 opening date: 1967-11-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967). title: Pablo Picasso: Fruhwerk und Blaue Periode (Pablo Picasso: Early Work and the Blue Period) opening date: 1984-12-06T05:00:00 Pablo Picasso: Fruhwerk und Blaue Periode (Pablo Picasso: Early Work and the Blue Period). Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland (organizer) (December 6, 1984-February 17, 1985). title: Picasso, Miró, Dali opening date: 1985-09-26T04:00:00 Picasso, Miró, Dali. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Bruxelles, Belgium (September 26-December 22, 1985). title: Picasso: The Artist before Nature opening date: 1989-09-21T04:00:00 Picasso: The Artist before Nature. Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand (organizer) (September 21-November 12, 1989). title: Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906 opening date: 1997-03-30T00:00:00 Picasso: The Early Years, 1892-1906. National Gallery of Art (organizer) (March 30-July 27, 1997); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (September 10, 1997-January 4, 1998). title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00 Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). title: Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí (1868-1939) opening date: 2006-10-15T00:00:00 Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí (1868-1939). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15, 2006-January 7, 2007); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (co-organizer) (March 4-June 3, 2007). title: Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-01-15T00:00:00 Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014). title: Spain: 500 Years of Spanish Painting from the Museum of Madrid opening date: 2018-06-22T04:00:00 Spain: 500 Years of Spanish Painting from the Museum of Madrid. San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX (organizer) (June 22-September 16, 2018). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Antonio Vancells, Barcelona, Spain date: footnotes: citations: (Knoedler & Co., New York, NY) date: footnotes: citations: Jane Taft Ingalls, Cleveland, OH date: 1951-1966 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1966- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Picasso painted this portrait of his sister when he was about 18 years old and just discovering avant-garde art through his association with the modernista artists of the Els 4 Gats (Four Cats) café in Barcelona. The evocative colors and melting forms suggest the influence of El Greco, a painter abhorred by academics but admired by Spanish modernists. Lola's mantilla may allude to the family's Andalusian roots in southern Spain. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS McCully, Marilyn, ed. and Natasha Elena Staller. Picasso--the Early Years, 1892-1906. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1997. page number: Reproduced: p. 104 url: Jiminez, Jill Berk, and Joanna Banham. Dictionary of Artists' Models. London, United Kingdom: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. page number: Reproduced: p. 427 url: Robinson, William H., Jordi Falgàs, and Carmen Belen Lord. Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 96 url: Serraller, F. Calvo, and Carmen Giménez. Picasso: Tradition and Avant-Garde : 6 June-4 September 2006. Madrid, Spain: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2006. page number: Reproduced: p. 241 url: Vallès, Eduard. Picasso versus Rusiñol: Barcelona, Museu Picasso, 27 de mayo-5 de septiembre de 2010. Barcelona, Spain: Ajuntament de Barcelona, Institut de Cultura, 2010. page number: Reproduced: p. 279 url: Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [クリーブランド美術館展 : 名画でたどる日本の美 Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014. page number: Reproduced: p. 134 url: Vallès, Eduard. Picasso: obra catalana. Barcelona: Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2015. page number: Reproduced: p. 34-[35] url: Gual, Malén. Lola Ruiz Picasso: La Custòdia del Tresor =The Custodian of the Treasure. Barcelona: Fundació Museu Picasso de Barcelona, 2021. page number: Reproduced: P. 65; Mentioned: P. 117 url: --- IMAGES