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"accession_number": "1969.22",
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"tombstone": "Fan, Salt Box, Melon, 1909. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881\u20131973). Oil on canvas; framed: 100.3 x 83.5 x 7.3 cm (39 1/2 x 32 7/8 x 2 7/8 in.); unframed: 81.3 x 64.2 cm (32 x 25 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1969.22. \u00a9 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
"current_location": "223 20th Century Avant-Garde",
"title": "Fan, Salt Box, Melon",
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"department": "Modern European Painting and Sculpture",
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"measurements": "Framed: 100.3 x 83.5 x 7.3 cm (39 1/2 x 32 7/8 x 2 7/8 in.); Unframed: 81.3 x 64.2 cm (32 x 25 1/4 in.)",
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"id": 301313,
"title": "Year in Review: 1969",
"description": "Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).",
"opening_date": "1970-01-27T05:00:00"
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"id": 442780,
"title": "Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective",
"description": "Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (organizer) (May 22-September 16, 1980).",
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"id": 442181,
"title": "The Essential Cubism",
"description": "The Essential Cubism. Tate, London SW1P 4RG (organizer) (April 27-July 9, 1983).",
"opening_date": "1983-04-27T04:00:00"
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"id": 310025,
"title": "Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960",
"description": "Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987).",
"opening_date": "1987-09-16T04:00:00"
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"title": "Picasso und Braque: Die Geburt des Kubismus (Picasso & Braque: Pioneering Cubism)",
"description": "Picasso und Braque: Die Geburt des Kubismus (Picasso & Braque: Pioneering Cubism). Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland (organizer) (February 25-June 18, 1990).",
"opening_date": "1990-02-25T05:00:00"
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"id": 182153,
"title": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); 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).",
"opening_date": "2006-05-27T00:00:00"
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"id": 444299,
"title": "Path to Abstraction: Picasso, Braque, and Cubism\u2019s Impact on Modern Art - Reciprocal Loan",
"description": "Path to Abstraction: Picasso, Braque, and Cubism\u2019s Impact on Modern Art - Reciprocal Loan. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR (organizer) (December 12, 2023-April 14, 2024) https://arkmfa.org/art/exhibitions/path-to-abstraction-picasso-braque-and-cubisms-impact-on-modern-art/.",
"opening_date": "2023-12-09T05:00:00"
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{
"id": 317581,
"title": "Picasso and Paper",
"description": "Picasso and Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (December 8, 2024-March 23, 2025).",
"opening_date": "2024-12-08T05:00:00"
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"description": "G. F. Reber [1880 \u2013 1959] Lausanne, Switzerland",
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"date": "1928",
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"description": "A. von Saher [1890-1996] Amsterdam, Netherlands",
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"description": "The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY.",
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"date": "1948",
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"description": "(Hirschl & Adler, New York, NY, 1969, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"did_you_know": "Picasso's Cubist compositions frequently feature fans.",
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"description": "One of Pablo Picasso\u2019s earliest Cubist paintings, this still life depicts a wooden salt box, a sliced melon in a crystal bowl, and a rumpled cloth resting on the table. A green fan is opened and propped against the wall, where it dissolves into faceted, geometric planes. While some objects are depicted from a frontal view, the table is tilted upright, as if seen from the ceiling, providing multiple simultaneous views of the scene, which became typical of Cubist works of art.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 196",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n220"
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 2",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/20thCenturyArtCMA/page/n3"
},
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"citation": "Hennig, Edward B. \"Pablo Picasso: Fan, Salt Box, and Melon.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56, no. 8 (October 1969): 273-286.",
"page_number": "Mentioned p. 278-286; Reproduced: cover and p. 273, fig. 1.",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152288"
},
{
"citation": "\u201cAcquisitions by Museums of Works by Picasso: Supplement.\u201d The Burlington Magazine 113, no. 823 (October 1971): 625-633.",
"page_number": "Mentioned p. 625; Reproduced: p. 627, fig. 72.",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/876779"
},
{
"citation": "Minervino, Fiorella. L\u2019Opera Completa Di Picasso Cubista. Milano: Rizzoli, 1972.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 102-103, no. 311",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cPablo Picasso: Bouteille, Verre, et Fourchette.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 7 (September 1972): 195\u2013203.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 196-197, fig. 6",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152438"
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 242",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n262"
},
{
"citation": "Daix, Pierre. Picasso, the Cubist Years, 1907-1916 : A Catalogue Raisonne\u0301 of the Paintings and Related Works. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced, p. 249, no. 314.",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cTwo New Cubist Paintings by Juan Gris and Pablo Picasso.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 2 (February 1981): 39\u201350.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 38-39, fig. 1",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159711"
},
{
"citation": "Cooper, Douglas and Gary Tinterow. The Essential Cubism, 1907-1920 : Braque, Picasso & Their Friends. London: Tate Gallery, 1983.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 248; Reproduced: cat. 119, p. 249",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Henning, Edward B. Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1987.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 112, no. 20",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Palau i Fabre, Josep. Picasso Cubism (1907-1917). New York: Rizzoli, 1990.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p.443-444, fig. 444 (as The Melon)",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Kosinski, Dorothy. \"G.F. Reber: collector of Cubism.\" The Burlington Magazine CXXXIII, no. 1061 (August 1991): 519-531.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 512",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/884887"
},
{
"citation": "Boggs, Jean Sutherland, Brigitte Le\u0301al, and Marie-Laure Bernadac. Picasso and Things: The Still Lifes of Picasso. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1992.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 80-81, no. 20",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Adrichem, Jan van. \"Collectors of Modern Art in Holland: Picasso as pars pro toto, 1920-40.\" Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 22, no. 3 (1993-1994): 148-198.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 153; Reproduced: p. 154",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/3780822"
},
{
"citation": "Adrichem, Jan van. De ontvangst van de moderne kunst in Nederland 1910-2000: Picasso als pars pro toto. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Prometheus, 2001.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 120",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Staller, Natasha. A Sum of Destructions: Picasso's Cultures & the Creation of Cubism. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001",
"page_number": "Mentioned p.214 and 217; Reproduced p.218, fig. 226",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Read, Peter. Picasso & Apollinaire: the persistence of memory. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 127, fig. 44",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Mishory, Alec. Still Life: From Represented Objects to Real Objects. Israel: The Open University of Israel, 2009.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 13, vol. 2",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Lopez, Jonathon. \"Hyde in Plain Sight.\" Art & Antiques (September 2010): 49-50.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 49-50",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Philippot, Emelia. \"Cubism.\" In Picasso and Paper. William H. Robinson, et al., 118-145. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2020.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 125, cat. no. 100",
"url": ""
},
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"citation": "Fisher, Frederick J. The Practice Run: How a Failed Art Heist Provided a Blueprint for the World\u2019s Largest Art Robbery. Lanham, [Maryland]: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2025.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 24",
"url": ""
}
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"catalogue_raisonne": "Zervos II. 189; Daix 314; Minervino 311",
"url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.22",
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"biography": "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.",
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