1911, Pablo Picasso, Pipe Rack and Still Life on a Table -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Picasso continued to work on the [Brooklyn] commission during the summer of 1911 but shifted to fresh subject matter: the still life. Belonging to a new phase of Cubism--which departed from the nearly total abstraction of the preceding year--these paintings depict objects such as musical instruments, glassware, smoking pipes, and hand fans, and include hand-painted or stenciled letters and words. Left in different stages of completion, they feature dense compositions at center that fade at either end. These large horizontal still lifes were probably intended to be installed across from each other, with one meant to be placed above the library's entrance to the back parlor and one above the library's false door. Like their companion, Reclining Woman on a Sofa (on view nearby), they would have been indirectly viewed from below.
1911, Pablo Picasso, Pipe Rack and Still Life on a Table -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Picasso continued to work on the [Brooklyn] commission during the summer of 1911 but shifted to fresh subject matter: the still life. Belonging to a new phase of Cubism--which departed from the nearly total abstraction of the preceding year--these paintings depict objects such as musical instruments, glassware, smoking pipes, and hand fans, and include hand-painted or stenciled letters and words. Left in different stages of completion, they feature dense compositions at center that fade at either end. These large horizontal still lifes were probably intended to be installed across from each other, with one meant to be placed above the library's entrance to the back parlor and one above the library's false door. Like their companion, Reclining Woman on a Sofa (on view nearby), they would have been indirectly viewed from below.