Lise Bernheimer-Rheinstrom

German, 1902 - 1980

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Rounded and angular shapes are painted with areas of mottled white, tan, gray, and brown in this abstracted, oval still-life painting. The shapes would be difficult to interpret without the painting's title, which is "A Glass on a Table." A white shape with a rounded bowl, an angled stem, and flaring foot could be the glass. Other objects are layered behind it, but it is hard to tell if we look down onto a table or into a cabinet, or both. A white rectangle to our left could be a folded newspaper.
Pablo Picasso, A Glass on a Table, 1913, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Ingrid and Morton Leeds), 2014.136.164

A Glass on a Table

Pablo Picasso · 1913 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.164