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Ink and charcoal painting with a vertical figure of a woman created through scaffolding of planes and using curved and diagonal lines to make out the body
Pablo Picasso’s Standing Woman, 1912
A conservator describes the techniques Picasso used to create his ink and charcoal drawing, Standing Woman (1912).
Rachel Mustalish
October 22, 2018
Oil painting which imitates layered paper and rum labels with red and blue dots throughout
Georges Braque’s Bottle of Rum, 1914
Scholars discovered new aspects of this painting using transmitted light to expose paint layers and density changes in the canvas.
Isabelle Duvernois
October 8, 2018
Painting with navy blue, green, and brown tones of a bottle, glass, pack of Scaferlati Ordinaire tobacco, and book on a tabletop
Juan Gris’s Book and Glass, 1914
Learn more about the unique textures and media used in Juan Gris’s papier collé, Book and Glass (1914).
Rachel Mustalish
October 1, 2018
Graphite drawing of a man with a hat leaning on a table with playing cards
Pablo Picasso’s Man Leaning on a Table with Playing Cards, 1914
Discover the artistic process Pablo Picasso went through in creating his graphite drawing, Man Leaning on a Table with Playing Cards.
Rachel Mustalish
October 30, 2017
Painting on a midnight blue background with a pipe, bouquet of flowers, wine, and faux marble wallpaper
Juan Gris’s Two Collages from 1914: Cup, Glasses, and Bottle (Le Journal) and Flowers
These two collages from 1914 appear to have similar backgrounds, but a closer look reveals significant differences.
Rachel Mustalish
October 23, 2017
Oil painting of a village of cones, cylinders and cubes with mostly blue, white, and red shapes in the center and more green and yellow shapes on the outskirts
Fernand Léger's The Village, 1914
Take a closer look at Fernand Léger’s colorful early composition, The Village, created using oil paint on burlap canvas.
Isabelle Duvernois
October 24, 2016
Oil and graphite painting of a green checked tablecloth with coffee cups, wine glasses, grapes, a newspaper and other objects arranged in the shape of a bull’s head
Juan Gris's Still Life with Checked Tablecloth, 1915
Conservation analysis reveals new details about Juan Gris’s intricate composition, Still Life with Checked Tablecloth (1915).
Isabelle Duvernois
October 18, 2016
Painting of a mustachioed man holding a guitar with an environment of interlocking colored planes
Pablo Picasso’s Man with a Guitar, 1915–16
Picasso used a variety of materials and techniques to create this small yet complex composition.
Rachel Mustalish
October 17, 2016
Oil painting with red, yellow, and black geometric cylinders and rectangles combine to form a worker typesetting the letters in front of him
Fernand Léger’s Composition (The Typographer), 1918–19
The paint application of Fernand Léger’s Composition (The Typographer) reveals compelling facts about the artist’s process.
Isabelle Duvernois
October 3, 2016
A closer look at the layers underneath "Bottle of Rum" by Georges Braque through transmitted light.
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Focus on Modern Art: Georges Braque’s Bottle of Rum, 1914
Metropolitan Museum conservator Isabelle Duvernois discusses Georges Braque's painting process and his adaptation of collage techniques to painting.
October 14, 2014