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Fan, Salt Box, Melon

1909

Pablo Picasso

(Spanish, 1881–1973)
Culture
Spain, 20th century
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Framed: 100.3 x 83.5 x 7.3 cm (39 1/2 x 32 7/8 x 2 7/8 in.); Unframed: 81.3 x 64.2 cm (32 x 25 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1969.22
Catalogue raisonné
Zervos II. 189; Daix 314; Minervino 311
Copyright
© Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
223 20th Century Avant-Garde
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Picasso's Cubist compositions frequently feature fans.

Description

One of Pablo Picasso’s earliest Cubist paintings, this still life depicts a wooden salt box, a sliced melon in a crystal bowl, and a rumpled cloth resting on the table. A green fan is opened and propped against the wall, where it dissolves into faceted, geometric planes. While some objects are depicted from a frontal view, the table is tilted upright, as if seen from the ceiling, providing multiple simultaneous views of the scene, which became typical of Cubist works of art.
Vertically oriented painting in mute blue-greens and browns with radiating geometric shapes depicting highly abstracted items on a table. On a table with a crumpled brown tablecloth sits a melon cut into crescent moon slices. Left of it, an angular brown salt box zig-zags up almost triple its height. Behind the box the blue-green blades of a hand fan flare out, merging with a crumpled grey background.

Fan, Salt Box, Melon

1909

Pablo Picasso

(Spanish, 1881–1973)
Spain, 20th century

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