Special Exhibitions
Picasso: The Artist's Studio
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Picasso: The Artist's Studio |
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The Studio, winter 1927–28; dated 1928 The Studio, winter 1927–28; dated 1928Oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, 1935 [Cat. no. 19] ©2001 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York During the winter of 1927 and 1928, Picasso painted a series of canvases depicting an artist at work in his studio. This painting is among the most important products of that prolonged engagement with the studio theme, and critics quickly hailed it as one of the artist's finest creations. At the left, the artist-reduced to a simple linear framework-holds a paintbrush with his left hand. He paints on a blank canvas directly across from a red table, a bowl containing a single piece of fruit, and a plaster bust on a white base. The repetition of geometric forms and blocks of color unifies the composition-the painter and his subject are one. Page 6 of 9 | On the next page: The Sculptor, December 7, 1931 |
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![<I>The Studio,</I> winter 1927–28; dated 1928<BR>Oil on canvas
<BR>The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, 1935
<BR>[Cat. no. 19]](../illus/(19)studiomoma.jpg)
