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Pablo Picasso, 1914
Technical Details
Medium
Painted wood and upholstery fringe
Dimensions
25.4 × 45.7 × 9.2 cm
Style
Cubist Construction
Decade
1910s
About This Work
This relief construction brings painted wood and upholstery fringe into a still-life format, turning familiar materials into an object that sits between painting and sculpture. The projecting elements interrupt the flatness expected of a picture and make the work physically assertive. Rather than offer an illusion of a table or bottle, Picasso lets constructed materials carry the image. The result makes ordinary surfaces and textures part of the subject, a defining Synthetic Cubist strategy.
Tate dates this Still Life to 1914 and classifies it as a relief made from painted wood and upholstery fringe. Its technical study places the work within Picasso’s Cubist exploration of sculptural materials. The construction demonstrates a wider shift in which Picasso treated assemblage as a way to question the hierarchy between fine art and everyday matter. Its significance lies in how the work makes a still life literal: materials are no longer only represented; they become the visual event itself. The documented holding collection is Tate, London, UK; its direct institutional object record (https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/picasso-still-life-t01136) is retained as the factual source for the catalog entry and its provenance trail.
Current Location
Tate, London, UK
Public Collection — Open to visitors
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Valuation & Provenance
2026 Estimated Value
Public collection / market value not asserted
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Last Known Sale
No public auction record — held in permanent museum collection
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