Nature Morte

Picasso, Pablo

163620 Picasso, Pablo (after), engraved by Jacques Villon Nature Morte c. 1928 G. & P. 652 14 1/2'' x 19 1/2'' Aquatint in color on Arches paper. Signed in pencil lower right and numbered with Villon's name and date in the plate. From the numbered edition of 200. Published by Bernhiem-Jeune, Paris. Executed in the demanding technique of aquatint by renowned etching master, Jacques Villon, and published by Picasso's most influential dealer (after Ambrose Vollard), Pierre Rosenberg, "Nature Morte" epitomizes Picasso's Neo-Classic imagery of the 1920's. Revealing a 'cubistic' approach through the flattened planes and patterns employed throughout, the work also presents a high stylized interpretation of the still life genre variously depicted throughout history by masters from Chardin, to Van Gogh, to Cezanne, to all of whom Picasso was well acquainted. In the work, Picasso introduces three familiar elements of still life, the classical bust to the left, which is depicted in the most economic of line, the mandolin jutting into the composition and providing a clear interpretation of the space and perspective of the work, and the sheet music, which appears to lift off the table and move toward the viewer. These items all reprised numerous times in the history of still life painting, in Picasso's hands become nearly abstract elements, but retain their distinctiveness to allow the relationship to historical painting of the past to resonate. Picasso's friend and biographer Roland Penrose, maintained that Picasso retained a relationship to art historical precedent in his work not so much to comment on it, but to reach back into time and bring art history contemporarily into his present time, being fully aware of his importance in the evolution of art of the 20th Century.

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163620

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14 1/2" x 19 1/2"

Medium

ETCHING

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