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"tombstone": "Still Life with Biscuits, 1924. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881\u20131973). Oil, sand, other materials on canvas; framed: 119.4 x 138.8 x 10.2 cm (47 x 54 5/8 x 4 in.); unframed: 80.8 x 100.4 cm (31 13/16 x 39 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1978.45. \u00a9 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"title": "Still Life with Biscuits",
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"measurements": "Framed: 119.4 x 138.8 x 10.2 cm (47 x 54 5/8 x 4 in.); Unframed: 80.8 x 100.4 cm (31 13/16 x 39 1/2 in.)",
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"inscription": "Signed lower left: \"Picasso / 24 [probably added later]\"",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1978",
"description": "Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).",
"opening_date": "1979-02-13T05:00:00"
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"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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{
"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. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008).",
"opening_date": "2006-05-27T00:00:00"
},
{
"id": 441481,
"title": "Gallery One 2012",
"description": "Gallery One 2012. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017).",
"opening_date": "2012-12-12T05:00:00"
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"description": "Paul Rosenberg [1881-1959], Paris, France",
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"description": "(E. V. Thaw, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"did_you_know": "Picasso created a wide variety of textures and patterns in this still life. The off-white paint used to represent the biscuits was applied like cake frosting in smooth, thick strokes, probably with a palette knife.",
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"description": "The white geometric shape in the center of this painting represents a compote (a bowl with a base and stem) upon which three green fruits are arranged. To the right is a plate of long, wafer-thin biscuits that could be langues-de-chat (French for \u201ccats\u2019 tongues\u201d), named for their shape. This painting is among the last of the artist\u2019s forays into the style of Synthetic Cubism in which lively colors and large, geometric shapes were used to depict recognizable objects.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cThe Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires 1924 Picasso Still Life,\u201d October 2, 1978, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr2589"
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1978.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 1 (January 1979): 3\u201348.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 26; Mentioned: p. 46, no. 126",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159613"
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"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. 46-47, fig. 15, Back Cover",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159711"
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"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. 117, no. 25",
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"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. 210-211, no. 82",
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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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"updated_at": "2026-08-19 20:06:59.479000"
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