Violin and Guitar

Gallery 272, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor

Main Building

Violin and Guitar

1912-1913

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)

Braque's early training as a peintre-décorateur (painter-decorator), during which he learned to paint trompe l'oeil (fool the eye) surfaces of marble and grained wood, had a profound impact on the development of Cubism. Both Braque and Picasso painted wood-grain patterns in their works before carrying the idea further by gluing pieces of wood-grain wallpaper to the canvas, a technique known as collage. The addition of foreign materials into works like this one served a dual purpose: the wallpaper functions as an integral part of the composition while also adding its own reality to the painting.

Gallery 272, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor

Object Details

Title:

Violin and Guitar

Date:

1912-1913

Artist:

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)

Medium:

Oil paint, gesso, charcoal, granular admixtures, and cut-and-pasted canvas on canvas

Dimensions:

36 1/16 x 25 3/8 inches (91.6 x 64.4 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950

Accession Number:

1950-134-170

Geography:

Made in Paris, France, Europe

Provenance

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Gallery 272, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor

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