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巴布羅·畢加索
描述
- 巴布羅·畢加索
- 《玻璃杯與酒壺》
- 款識:藝術家簽名 Picasso(左上);紀年23-14-Juillet 44(背面)
- 油彩畫布
- 13 x 16 3/8 英寸
- 33 x 41.5 公分
來源
Jean Planque, Paris
Jane Wade, Ltd., New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1966 and sold: Christie's, New York, November 6, 2007, lot 71)
Richard Green Fine Art, London (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above in March 2008
展覽
出版
Carsten-Peter Warncke, Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, vol. II, Cologne, 1994, illustrated in color p. 462
拍品資料及來源
In the years following the war, Picasso was criticized by some of his contemporaries for the lack of open political engagement in his art. Rather than a vehicle for documenting the destructive reality that surrounded him, painting was for him a world of creativity into which he could escape, and his works of this period certainly express Picasso's state of mind in his own artistic language. "It is not time for the creative man to fail, to shrink, to stop working," Picasso told Sidney and Harry Janis of his experience in occupied Paris. "There is nothing else to do but work seriously and devotedly, struggle for food, see friends quietly and look forward to freedom" (Picasso, quoted in M. McCully, ed., A Picasso Anthology: Documents, Criticism, Reminiscences, Princeton, 1997, p. 224).
Frances Morris wrote about the symbolism of Picasso's still-lifes of the early 1940s: "Above all it was the still-life genre that Picasso developed into a tool capable of evoking the most complex blend of pathos and defiance, of despair to hope, balancing personal and universal experience in an expression of extraordinary emotional power. The hardship of daily life, the fragility of human existence and the threat of death are themes that haunt Picasso's still-life paintings of the war and Liberation periods" (F. Morris, Paris Post War, Art and Existentialism 1945-1955 (exhibition catalogue), Tate Gallery, London, 1993, p. 155).