Guitar, Glass, Bottle of Vieux Marc

1913

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

Picasso often pinned his cutouts to the support before pasting them flat. He sometimes left the pins in situ (a crafty echo of the trompe l’oeil nail), allowing part of the paper to rise proud of the surface and cast live shadows from within the picture. Here, a subtle shadow emerges from beneath the lower edge of the indented ocher cutout, an inversion of the guitar’s B-shaped, white profile. Picasso both concealed and revealed it by adding light strokes of charcoal. The cylindrical bottle projects a contradictory, squared-off double. The outline of a glass adds to the reversals of light and dark, highlight and shadow, and the transparent and opaque.

Artwork Details

Overview

Exhibition History

Title: Guitar, Glass, Bottle of Vieux Marc
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
Date: 1913
Medium: Chalk, charcoal, cut-and-pasted printed wallpaper, laid and wove papers, and straight pins on blue laid paper
Dimensions: 18 9/16 × 24 5/16 in. (47.2 × 61.8 cm)
Classification: Collages
Credit Line: Musée National Picasso-Paris, Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979 (MP 376)
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art