Guitar, Glass, Bottle of Vieux Marc
Pablo Picasso Spanish
Not on view
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.
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