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Two rectangular pieces of paper marked with black lines and geometric shapes are stacked against a light wood background in this vertical collage. The top rectangle is dark brown with parallel lines, nested V-shapes, and rounded sections of an abstracted guitar. Brown string nailed to the wood suggests the strings. The other paper is a lighter tan color, and it is offset up and to our left. Lines capture the curved edge of the guitar and the frets on the neck at the top. A peach-colored ribbon decorated with faint, olive-green leaves runs at a slight upward diagonal to the right behind the papers. The panel beneath is light, cream-colored wood with some visible grain.

Pablo Picasso

Guitar, 1926

East Building, Upper Level - Gallery 415C

Medium

collage of wallpaper, carpet tacks, nail, paper, string, and charcoal on wood

Dimensions

overall: 130 x 97 cm (51 3/16 x 38 3/16 in.)

framed: 154.9 x 122.5 x 6.3 cm (61 x 48 1/4 x 2 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Chester Dale Fund

Accession Number

1982.8.1

Artists / Makers

Pablo Picasso (artist) Spanish, 1881 - 1973

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Copyright

Provenance

The artist [d. 1973]; his estate; private collection, Switzerland; acquired 1980 by (Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York); purchased 1982 by NGA.[1]

[1] Provenance from curator's acquisition proposal.

Associated Names

Acquavella Contemporary Art, Inc.
Private Collection, Switzerland

Exhibition History

1980: XIX & XX Century Master Paintings, Acquavella Galleries, New York, 1980, no. 15, color repro.

2002: Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l'Oeil Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002-2003, no. 98, color repro.

Bibliography

1932: Zervos, Christian. Pablo Picasso. 33 vols. Paris, 1932-1978: 7(1955): no. 18, pl. 9.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 607, no. 940, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 310, repro.

1989: Strick, Jeremy. Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building. Washington, D.C., 1989: repro. 44, 45.

2013: Clark, T.J. Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica. (Bollingen series 35; The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 58.) Princeton, 2013: 82, 84-85, color fig. 2.17.