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View source →Pablo Picasso, fall 1909
Medium
Watercolor and pen and brown ink, with charcoal and scraping (recto) Graphite (verso), on cream wove paper, with pieced cream laid paper repairs
Dimensions
33.6 × 51.1 cm (13 1/4 × 20 1/8 in.)
Style
Proto-Cubism
Decade
1900s
The official Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois record identifies Still Life with Bottle (recto) Bottle with Stipper (verso) as a Pablo Picasso watercolor, dated fall 1909, in Watercolor and pen and brown ink, with charcoal and scraping (recto) Graphite (verso), on cream wove paper, with pieced cream laid paper repairs. This catalog entry preserves the holding institution’s title and object metadata rather than inferring undocumented imagery, sitter identity, or artist intent.
Still Life with Bottle (recto) Bottle with Stipper (verso) is grouped under African / Proto-Cubist Period for gallery navigation using the date published by Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. This period label provides high-level art-historical orientation and does not supersede the primary collection record. The institutional credit line is: Gift of William N. Eisendrath, Jr..
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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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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