Still Life with Fruit Bowl (Nature morte au compotier)
Pablo Picasso
1908-1909
Medium
drypoint on laid Arches paper
Dimensions
plate: 13 x 11 cm (5 1/8 x 4 5/16 in.) sheet: 37.8 x 30.3 cm (14 7/8 x 11 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2006.57.26
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Pablo Picasso · 1881–1973
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), born Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso in Málaga, Spain, was the son of José Ruiz Blasco, a painter and art professor who served as his first teacher. From age seven, Picasso trained under his father in figure drawing and oil painting, mastering naturalistic techniques by copying mas...