Still life with Compote and Glass

1914-1915

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 completed this painting during the first winter of World War I. He counteracted the signs of festive eating and drinking—a compote piled with fruit and cakes, with a black, raffia-encased bottle of rum to its left; a peeled apple; a wineglass—by turning Le Journal black and the adjoining crumpled napkin an ominous leaden gray. The wallpapers he had used in his papiers collés influenced the work’s conception: the faux cutouts with multicolored dots mimic faux-granite wallpapers, and, on the right, the truncated marble panel and wood chair rail can only represent paper imitations of the real thing. The apparent grandeur of the composition is manifestly sham.

Artwork Details

Overview

Exhibition History

Title: Still life with Compote and Glass
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)
Date: 1914-1915
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25 × 31 in. (63.5 × 78.7 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Columbus Museum of Art, Gift of Ferdinand Howald
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art