Glass and Bottle of Bass
Pablo Picasso Spanish
Not on view
These two papier collés poke fun at the same well-worn conventions of art display parodied by Haberle in the trompe l’oeil on the facing wall. Picasso mounted two of his Cubist still lifes on wallpaper supports and surrounded them with a printed leaf-and-berry border that simulates the carved versions used to frame venerated masterpieces. The rectangles of pasted paper, which bear a faux naive version of his autograph, mock the brass nameplates pretentiously affixed to solid frames by collectors and museums. Yet, by virtue of his collage technique, Picasso has appended to his picture a materially real version of the cartellino, the time-honored illusion of a slip of paper bearing the artist’s signature—likely a first in the history of art.
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