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"tombstone": "Still Life Under a Lamp, Mougins, March 19, 1962. Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881\u20131973), printed by Hidalgo Arn\u00e9ra (Spanish, 1922\u20132007), published by Galerie Louise Leiris. Color linocut on wove paper; image: 52.8 x 63.8 cm (20 13/16 x 25 1/8 in.); sheet: 62 x 74.8 cm (24 7/16 x 29 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1984.61. \u00a9 2024 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"title": "Still Life Under a Lamp",
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"measurements": "Image: 52.8 x 63.8 cm (20 13/16 x 25 1/8 in.); Sheet: 62 x 74.8 cm (24 7/16 x 29 7/16 in.)",
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"inscription": "Inscribed, lower left, in graphite: 22/50; signed, lower right, in graphite: Picasso",
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"inscription": "Watermark, lower center margin: ARCHES [reversed]",
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"title": "Year in Review for 1984",
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"title": "Object in Focus: Picasso, Still Life Under a Lamp, 1962 [linoleum cut 1984.61]",
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"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"
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"id": 317581,
"title": "Picasso and Paper",
"description": "Picasso and Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (December 8, 2024-March 23, 2025).",
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"description": "Robert Walker, Swarthmore, PA",
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"description": "Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA",
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"description": "R.M. Light, Santa Barbara, CA (sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)",
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"did_you_know": "Picasso made over 2,500 prints during his artistic career.",
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"description": "This print was created using a variation of the linocut technique that Picasso developed himself. He did so because he found the traditional process\u2014which involves carefully lining up and printing a different linoleum block for each color\u2014too laborious. Instead, the artist cut away areas of a single block and reprinted each color as he went. Although this method removed the need for careful alignment, it presented its own challenges: a single mistake could ruin the entire edition.",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1984.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 2 (April 1985): 163\u2013207.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 196; Mentioned: p. 205, no. 134",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159897"
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"citation": "Planas, Clausstre Rafart. \"Materials and Techniques.\" In Picasso and Paper. William H. Robinson, et al., 292-313. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2020.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 301, cat. no. 316",
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"citation": "Harris, Roger. \u201cPicasso and Paper : at the Cleveland Museum of Art, a Long-Awaited Exhibition Celebrates Picasso's Use of Paper Over the Course of His Legendary Artistic Career.\" Art & Antiques 47, n. 6 (November/December 2024): 42-47.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 46",
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"citation": "\"Exhibitions Through May 2025.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 65, no. 1 (2025): 12-13.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 13; Mentioned: p. 12",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM-2025-01"
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"catalogue_raisonne": "Bloch 1101; Baer V.437.1312",
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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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