id: 144558
accession number: 1969.22
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.22
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Fan, Salt Box, Melon, 1909. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). 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. © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
title: Fan, Salt Box, Melon
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creation date: 1909
creation date earliest: 1909
creation date latest: 1909
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creditline: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
copyright: © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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culture: Spain, 20th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type: Painting
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catalogue raisonne: Zervos II. 189; Daix 314; Minervino 311
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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.
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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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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1969
opening date: 1970-01-27T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).
title: Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective
opening date: 1980-05-22T04:00:00
Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (organizer) (May 22-September 16, 1980).
title: The Essential Cubism
opening date: 1983-04-27T04:00:00
The Essential Cubism. Tate, London SW1P 4RG (organizer) (April 27-July 9, 1983).
title: Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960
opening date: 1987-09-16T04:00:00
Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987).
title: Picasso und Braque: Die Geburt des Kubismus (Picasso & Braque: Pioneering Cubism)
opening date: 1990-02-25T05:00:00
Picasso und Braque: Die Geburt des Kubismus (Picasso & Braque: Pioneering Cubism). Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland (organizer) (February 25-June 18, 1990).
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. Beijing World Art Museum, China (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).
title: Path to Abstraction: Picasso, Braque, and Cubism’s Impact on Modern Art - Reciprocal Loan
opening date: 2023-12-09T05:00:00
Path to Abstraction: Picasso, Braque, and Cubism’s 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/.
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
G. F. Reber [1880 – 1959] Lausanne, Switzerland
date: 1928
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A. von Saher [1890-1996] Amsterdam, Netherlands
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The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY.
date: 1948
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(Hirschl & Adler, New York, NY, 1969, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: -1969
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1969-
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CITATIONS
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
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
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
“Acquisitions by Museums of Works by Picasso: Supplement.” 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
Minervino, Fiorella. L’Opera Completa Di Picasso Cubista. Milano: Rizzoli, 1972.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 102-103, no. 311
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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
Daix, Pierre. Picasso, the Cubist Years, 1907-1916 : A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings and Related Works. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced, p. 249, no. 314.
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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
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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
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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)
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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
Boggs, Jean Sutherland, Brigitte Léal, 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
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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
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
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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
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Read, Peter. Picasso & Apollinaire: the persistence of memory. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008.
page number: Reproduced: p. 127, fig. 44
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Mishory, Alec. Still Life: From Represented Objects to Real Objects. Israel: The Open University of Israel, 2009.
page number: Reproduced: p. 13, vol. 2
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Lopez, Jonathon. "Hyde in Plain Sight." Art & Antiques (September 2010): 49-50.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 49-50
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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
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