Fruit-Dish with Grapes
Pablo Picasso Spanish
Not on view
Picasso alluded to Pliny’s famous account of the luscious grapes painted by Zeuxis by pairing his cutout of a simplified bunch of the fruit with a snippet of the Leroy factory’s trompe l’oeil wallpaper border of scrolling leaves and berries. Cascades of colored dots representing rays of light echo the design of the faux granite wallpapers Picasso used in other collages made in this period. The eccentrically shaped cutout representing the fruit dish is visibly flat, but he gave it volume through his virtuoso modeling and by reinforcing with pencil the real shadows cast by the lifting edges of the paper.
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