Still Life with Box of Jelly, Bread, Salver with Glass, and Cooler
Luis Meléndez Spanish
Not on view
This painting is from a renowned set of almost forty still lifes by Meléndez on display at the Prado ever since the museum opened in 1819. In these masterpieces of descriptive realism, which Picasso and Gris certainly saw, the space is shallow, the background featureless, and the crowded table or shelf brought so close to the frontal picture plane that the objects projecting over its edge appear to penetrate the viewer’s space. The acute appeal to the senses is offset by the refined geometry of Meléndez’s carefully plotted compositions.
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