Pablo Picasso Cubist Still Life on Museum Gallery Wall

5 October 2017 · Paris

A large-scale Picasso hangs on a white gallery wall in a European museum, framed in dark wood with a navy inner border. The canvas works in deep navy, warm ochre, and dark brown — flattened planes of a figure, a pedestal bowl, a bottle, and a guitar pushed together into a single composition. Figurative and still life at the same time, the forms hold both readings at once without resolving into either. The wall label to the right identifies the work; the signature sits in the lower left of the canvas.