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Pablo Picasso, 1911–12
Technical Details
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
Framed: 92.4 x 75.9 x 8.3 cm (36 3/8 x 29 7/8 x 3 1/4 in.); Unframed: 72 x 52.7 cm (28 3/8 x 20 3/4 in.)
Style
Analytic Cubism
Decade
1910s
About This Work
The official Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio record identifies Bottle, Glass, Fork as a Pablo Picasso artwork, dated 1911–12, in oil on canvas. This still life depicts a variety of objects found on a café table: a bottle, glass, folded newspaper, and utensils. Intricate in its composition and subtle in palette, this painting exemplifies Analytic Cubism, an artistic style devised by Picasso and Georges Braque between 1908–12 characterized by the fragmentary appearance of multiple, simultaneous viewpoints and overlapping planes. Maintaining a connection to the real world, Picasso inserted letters and numbers with personal and political meanings. The “fe 20” could refer to the word “café” and a street address. “EAN” above [P] ARIS may allude to the newspaper <em>L’Intransigeant </em>founded in 1880 in Paris; but ultimately, the meaning of these fragments remains mysterious and known only to the artist.
Bottle, Glass, Fork is grouped here under Analytic Cubism for gallery navigation based on the date published by Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio. This period label is interpretive context, not a replacement for the cited primary object record. The holding collection is documented by the cited institutional source.
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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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