id:			149371
accession number:	1978.31
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.31
updated:		2023-03-11 20:51:09.893000

Picasso Goes to Heaven, 1973–76. Red Grooms (American, b. 1937). Etching colored by stencil with watercolor; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Gift 1978.31 © Red Grooms, Member of Artists Rights Society (ARS)

title:				Picasso Goes to Heaven
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creation date:			1973–76
creation date earliest:		1973
creation date latest:		1976
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creditline:			Anonymous Gift
copyright:			© Red Grooms, Member of Artists Rights Society (ARS)

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	etching colored by stencil with watercolor
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Alexander & Cowles 32

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CREATORS

* Red Grooms (American, b. 1937)  - artist

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1978
	opening date:   1979-02-13T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1978</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).

	title:		Urban Vicissitudes
	opening date:   1985-07-02T04:00:00
	<i>Urban Vicissitudes</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 2-September 29, 1985).

	title:		Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors
	opening date:   1995-11-22T05:00:00
	<i>Changing Dimensions: Works on Paper by Sculptors</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1995-January 24, 1996).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland Museum of Art, 1995-1996: Changing Dimensions:  Works on Paper by Sculptors:  November 22, 1995-January 24, 1996, no cat.

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<em>Picasso Goes to Heaven</em>, like Groom's three-dimensional construction, <em>Looking Along Broadway Towards Grace Church</em>, is a zany, cartoonlike scene teeming with visual clutter. In this animated caricature, Grooms pokes fun at Picasso with the same gusto he used to describe the raucous exhilaration of urban life. Art is rarely so amusing. As Grooms says, "Humor is like boxing. You set 'em up. Then, whammo!"
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