id: 144558 accession number: 1969.22 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.22 updated: 2023-06-03 11:00:33.103000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1909 creation date earliest: 1909 creation date latest: 1909 current location: 223 20th Century Avant-Garde creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 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: 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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: Cubism exhibition - Reciprocal Loan opening date: 2023-12-09T05:00:00 Cubism exhibition - Reciprocal Loan. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR (organizer) (December 12, 2023-April 14, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE G. F. Reber [1880 – 1959] Lausanne, Switzerland date: 1928 footnotes: citations: A. von Saher [1890-1996] Amsterdam, Netherlands date: footnotes: citations: The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY. date: 1948 footnotes: citations: (Hirschl & Adler, New York, NY, 1969, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: -1969 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1969- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: One of Picasso's earliest Cubist paintings, this still life depicts a group of objects on a table. A lady's green fan is opened and propped against the wall, where it dissolves into faceted, geometric planes. A wooden salt box, a sliced melon in a crystal bowl, and a rumpled cloth also rest on the table. While some objects are depicted from a frontal view, the table is tilted upright, as if seen from the ceiling. --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 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 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: 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 url: 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: Read, Peter. Picasso & Apollinaire: the persistence of memory. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008. page number: Reproduced: p. 127, fig. 44 url: 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: Lopez, Jonathon. "Hyde in Plain Sight." Art & Antiques (September 2010): 49-50. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 49-50 url: 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: --- IMAGES