1918, Pablo Picasso, Grande nature morte (Large Still Life) -- Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris)
From the museum label: Paul Guillaume's wife Domenica disposed of some of the more radical works collected by her late husband, with the exception of this large Cubist composition, which she retained. Painted by Picasso during a trip to Biarritz in 1918, Large Still Life marks a turning point in his work. Distancing himself from the radicalism of synthetic Cubism, the artist was increasingly drawn to a style of painting steeped in classicism, and combined the inspiration of antiquity with the French Attic style embodied by the painters Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), Ingres (1780-1867) or Cézanne.
1918, Pablo Picasso, Grande nature morte (Large Still Life) -- Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris)
From the museum label: Paul Guillaume's wife Domenica disposed of some of the more radical works collected by her late husband, with the exception of this large Cubist composition, which she retained. Painted by Picasso during a trip to Biarritz in 1918, Large Still Life marks a turning point in his work. Distancing himself from the radicalism of synthetic Cubism, the artist was increasingly drawn to a style of painting steeped in classicism, and combined the inspiration of antiquity with the French Attic style embodied by the painters Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), Ingres (1780-1867) or Cézanne.