Picasso still life

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Pablo Picasso. Decanter and tureens, 1908 Decanter and Tureens 1908 Oil on cardboard St.Petersburg. The State Hermitage Museum

Pablo Picasso. Still Life with Fruit. 1939

David Bailly

Painted in 1924 at Juan-les-Pins on the French Rivera, this composition belongs to a series of large, synthetic cubist still lifes created by Pablo Picasso in the mid-1920s. It’s cheerful, lively colours and playful forms reflect a relatively tranquil time in the artist’s personal life-between the birth of his first son, Paolo (1921), and before his marriage with Olga began to deteriorate. During this period Picasso painted numerous still lifes expressing the simple pleasures of domestic…

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Flower vase by Pablo Picasso. [Gift of the artist to Paul Roux, founder of La Colombe d'Or in Saint Paul de Vence, France]

This spring, works by the greats of impressionism, such as Manet, Degas, Renoir, Monet, Cézanne, Gaugin and Van Gogh, have been gathered in the Musée Maillol in Paris. The masterpieces belong to the the Emil Bührle Collection, one of the most prestigious collections in the world, boasting 600 works which retrace the history of 19th and early 20th century painting, from impressionism, to cubism and fauvism. Until July, the Musée Maillol has opened its doors to this exceptional collection.

Pablo Picasso. Still life with a key. 1920 year