Glass and Card

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.

These papiers collés exemplify Picasso’s genius for converting offcuts of paper into surprisingly convincing objects. In each case, the artist created a wineglass by cutting out half its silhouette, drawing certain contours and details, and shading part of its body. Alternating between the ready-made and the handmade, Picasso used a scrap of a trompe l’oeil border to represent a carved chair rail in Glass and Card but drew the wood beading of Pipe and Wineglass by hand in the standardized style of illusionistic printed borders. Like the quarter apple in Still Life with a Glass and Ace of Clubs (hanging nearby), the pipe came from Picasso’s existing stock of cutouts. Although adhered to the surface, it has a sculptural presence thanks to the careful modeling and the hand-drawn shadow cast by its stem.

Artwork Details

Overview

Exhibition History

Title: Glass and Card
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
Date: 1914
Medium: Gouache, conté crayon, cut-and-pasted printed wallpaper, and wove paper on paper mounted on paperboard
Dimensions: 10 1/4 × 11 in. (26 × 27.9 cm)
Classification: Collages
Credit Line: Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York; Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art