Still Life with a Bottle, Playing Cards, and a Wineglass on a Table

Gallery 272, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor

Main Building

Still Life with a Bottle, Playing Cards, and a Wineglass on a Table

1914

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)

This relatively small painting on sketch board is a masterpiece of restraint. The colors are sober, and their relationships are established by the dark brown paint of the background and the reddish-brown varnish of the flattened tabletop, whose wood-graining effect was created by dragging a comb through the wet paint. The still-life arrangement on the table consists of a darkly shadowed bottle on the left, whose drab color and sand-encrusted texture contrast with the cheerful gaiety of the fluted wineglass and the box of JOB cigarette rolling papers on the right, as well as the five brightly patterned playing cards that hover mysteriously above the table.

Gallery 272, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor

Object Details

Title:

Still Life with a Bottle, Playing Cards, and a Wineglass on a Table

Date:

1914

Artist:

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)

Medium:

Oil, sand, and graphite on sketch board, mounted on cradled wood panel

Dimensions:

12 1/2 x 16 7/8 inches (31.8 x 42.9 cm) Framed: 18 1/4 × 22 1/4 × 2 3/8 inches (46.4 × 56.5 × 6 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

A. E. Gallatin Collection, 1952

Accession Number:

1952-61-95

Geography:

Made in Avignon, France, Europe

Provenance

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Gallery 272, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor

Main Building

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