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abstract cubist image with a lot of whites, browns, and greys and lines everywhere.
Reevaluating Picasso’s Unfinished Masterpiece
Scholar and curator Anna Jozefacka discusses an unrealized decorative commission by Pablo Picasso intended for a Brooklyn residence.
Isabelle Qian
October 16, 2023
Cubist painting of a metronome in tones of gray and brown
Georges Braque's Still Life with Metronome (Still Life with Mandola and Metronome), late 1909
Braque’s painting marked a critical step in advancing Cubism, but the importance of the metronome has been overlooked.
Lauren Rosati
October 5, 2020
Oil painting of nude woman sitting on a stool holding a cloth between her bent legs with a dark green background
Pablo Picasso's Seated Female Nude, Winter 1908
Discover Picasso’s walk through the Jardin des Plantes, and his encounter with Oceanic sculpture at the Musée d’histoire naturelle, that inspired a 1908 painting.
Philippe Peltier and Samuel Bronowski
October 28, 2019
Painting of two nude women and one nude man with earlier sketches and inscription in the light brown background
Pablo Picasso's Three Nudes, 1906
Learn how scholars used analytical imaging and digital manipulation to uncover a hidden drawing behind the many layers of Picasso’s Three Women (1906).
Rachel Mustalish
October 21, 2019
Oil painting looking out over a balcony onto a terraced park with geometrically formed trees in green, orange, and brown tones
Georges Braque's The Terrace at the Hôtel Mistral, 1907
Get a closer look at The Terrace at the Hôtel Mistral and its real-life inspiration, the Grand Hotel Château Fallet.
Rebecca Rabinow
October 14, 2019
Ink and charcoal painting of a man’s head, shoulders, and almond-shaped eyes with long strokes of black ink coming out of them
Pablo Picasso's Head of a Man, 1908
Sketches obscured beneath this portrait reveals aspects of the artist’s creative process.
Rachel Mustalish
October 7, 2019
Oil and charcoal painting of brown-toned cubist take on a bar or café interior with the tall shape at the center identified as a bottle of “Marc Vieux” brandy
Georges Braque's Bottle of Marc Vieux, 1912
Conservators explain the artist’s process for creating his oil and charcoal painting, Bottle of Marc Vieux.
Isabelle Duvernois
October 29, 2018
Ink and charcoal painting with a vertical figure of a woman created through scaffolding of planes and using curved and diagonal lines to make out the body
Pablo Picasso's Standing Woman, 1912
A conservator describes the techniques Picasso used to create his ink and charcoal drawing, Standing Woman (1912).
Rachel Mustalish
October 22, 2018
Oil painting which imitates layered paper and rum labels with red and blue dots throughout
Georges Braque's Bottle of Rum, 1914
Scholars discovered new aspects of this painting using transmitted light to expose paint layers and density changes in the canvas.
Isabelle Duvernois
October 8, 2018
Painting with navy blue, green, and brown tones of a bottle, glass, pack of Scaferlati Ordinaire tobacco, and book on a tabletop
Juan Gris's Book and Glass, 1914
Learn more about the unique textures and media used in Juan Gris’s papier collé, Book and Glass (1914).
Rachel Mustalish
October 1, 2018