Glass, Newspaper, and Die

1914

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 toyed with standard trompe l’oeil themes in this relief sculpture, which he framed as if it were a painting. The glass and newspaper, fashioned entirely from bent and cut tin, project so far beyond the ready-made frame that a viewer drawing too close might suffer a nasty cut—an absurdist parody of seventeenth-century paintings of tables strewn with objects that appear to protrude outward and invite the urge to touch. The grisaille (gray monochrome) palette echoes that adopted by painters who specialized in simulating relief sculpture, but Picasso’s super-sketchy technique is flamboyantly anti-illusionistic.

Artwork Details

Overview

Exhibition History

Title: Glass, Newspaper, and Die
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
Date: 1914
Medium: Painted relief with tin, sand, iron wire with reconstituted wood background and frame
Dimensions: 8 1/8 × 7 1/2 × 3 3/4 in. (20.6 × 19 × 9.5 cm)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit Line: Musée National Picasso-Paris, Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979 (MP 251)
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art