id: 149388 accession number: 1978.45 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.45 updated: 2024-03-26 11:01:43.612000 Still Life with Biscuits, 1924. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). 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 © Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: Still Life with Biscuits title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1924 creation date earliest: 1924 creation date latest: 1924 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, sand, other materials 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: 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower left: "Picasso / 24 [probably added later]" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1978 opening date: 1979-02-13T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979). 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: 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. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008). title: Gallery One 2012 opening date: 2012-12-12T05:00:00 Gallery One 2012. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Paul Rosenberg [1881-1959], Paris, France date: footnotes: citations: (E. V. Thaw, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: -1978 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1978- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “The Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires 1924 Picasso Still Life,” October 2, 1978, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr2589 Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1978.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 1 (January 1979): 3–48. page number: Reproduced: p. 26; Mentioned: p. 46, no. 126 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159613 Henning, Edward B. “Two New Cubist Paintings by Juan Gris and Pablo Picasso.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 2 (February 1981): 39–50. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 46-47, fig. 15, Back Cover url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159711 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 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. 210-211, no. 82 url: --- IMAGES