Still life with Compote and Glass
Pablo Picasso Spanish
Not on view
Picasso completed this painting during the first winter of World War I. He counteracted the signs of festive eating and drinking—a compote piled with fruit and cakes, with a black, raffia-encased bottle of rum to its left; a peeled apple; a wineglass—by turning Le Journal black and the adjoining crumpled napkin an ominous leaden gray. The wallpapers he had used in his papiers collés influenced the work’s conception: the faux cutouts with multicolored dots mimic faux-granite wallpapers, and, on the right, the truncated marble panel and wood chair rail can only represent paper imitations of the real thing. The apparent grandeur of the composition is manifestly sham.
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