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Pablo Picasso 1881-1973
©Pablo Picasso - Bottle of Vieux Marc, Glass, Guitar and Newspaper 1913
 Bottle of Vieux Marc, Glass, Guitar and Newspaper |
From Tate Gallery, London:
Picasso first began to make collages in 1912. The use of cut papers, and in particular clippings from newspapers, seemed a natural extension of his earlier experiments with stencilled lettering. Whereas his earlier cubist works had involved deconstructing objects into their component parts, works like this one sought to construct a unified composition from abstracted fragments of the objects depicted. The newspaper in this work may have been chosen for its faded colour, since it was already nearly thirty years old when Picasso used it.