Glass, Ace of Clubs, Packet of Cigarettes
Pablo Picasso Spanish
Not on view
In iconography and structure this papier collé is closely related to Still Life (in the nearby case), its bare background representing the wall against which Picasso’s constructed reliefs were supposed to hang. The overlapping handmade components (the loosely brushed faux wood paneling with molding; the glass and pipe fashioned from cut-and-torn paper; the cutout imitating an ace of clubs) vie with real printed cigarette packaging, which Picasso cut and shaded to simulate creasing. In contrast, the schematic tabletop, drawn in reverse perspective directly on the paperboard, undermines the pretense of three-dimensionality governing the rest of the composition.
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