Fruit-Dish with Grapes

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 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.

Artwork Details

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Exhibition History

Title: Fruit-Dish with Grapes
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
Date: 1914
Medium: Cut-and-pasted printed wallpaper, laid and wove papers, gouache, and graphite on laid paper
Dimensions: 18 7/8 × 16 3/4 in. (47.9 × 42.5 cm)
Classification: Collages
Credit Line: Private collection
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art