Bottle of Anis del Mono

1915

Pablo Picasso Spanish, 1881-1973

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About the Artwork

Picasso’s synthetic cubism is elegantly exemplified by these objects on a tilted pedestal table, painted by laying down dots and dashes with the tip of the brush. This painting may be a self-portrait in disguise: the elongated bottle resembles a harlequin, the artist’s favorite motif, and the trompe l’oeil nameplate with “Picasso” underscores this possibility. It is also supported by the silhouette of a blue bird, the still life’s secondary feature, thought to represent the expiring soul of Eva Gouel, the artist’s companion, then dying in a Paris hospital.

Title Bottle of Anis del Mono

Artwork Date 1915

Artist Pablo Picasso

Life Dates 1881-1973

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Spanish

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Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 18 1/8 × 21 1/2 inches (46 × 54.6 cm) Framed: 24 1/4 × 27 5/8 × 3 1/8 inches (61.6 × 70.2 × 7.9 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 70.192

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Signed Signed, in black and white letters on brown rectangle at lower center: PICASSO

Provenance

about 1916, (Léonce Rosenberg [1879-1947], Galerie de l'Effort moderne, Paris, France);
early 1930s, (G.F. Reber [1880-1959], Lausanne, Switzerland);
before 1933, (A.E. Von Saher, Amsterdam, Netherlands);
before 1948, (Fine Arts Associates, New York, New York, USA);
1948, purchased by Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);
1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Raynal, Maurice. Picasso. Paris, 1922, (pl. 50).

Cubism. Exh. cat., Buchholz Gallery. New York, 1949, no. 48.

Zervos, Christian. Pablo Picasso, vol. 2. Paris, 1961, p. 552.

The Robert Hudson Tannahill Bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1970, pp. 11-12 (ill.), 21, 29.

Rubin, William. Picasso in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Including Remainder-Interest and Promised Gifts. New York, 1972, p. 215, no. 69.

Daix, Pierre, and Joan Rosselet. Picasso: The Cubist Years, 1907-1916: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings and Related Works. Paris, 1979, no. 838.

Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective. Exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1980, p. 190.

The Essential Cubism: Braque, Picasso, and their Friends. Exh. cat., The Tate Gallery. London, 1983, no. 148.

Le Siecle de Picasso. Exh. cat., Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Paris, 1987, no. 10.

El siglo de Picasso. Exh. cat., Museum Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Madrid, 1988, no. 8.

Palau i Fabre, Josep. Picasso, Cubisme (1907-1917). Paris, 1990, p. 457, no. 1388.

Kosinski, Dorothy. "G.F. Reber: Collector of Cubism." Burlington Magazine 133, no. 1061 (August 1991): p. 531.

Picasso and Things. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, 1992, no. 62.

Leal, Paloma Esteban. Juan Gris: Paintings and Drawings 1910-1927, vol. 1. Exh. cat., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Madrid, 2005, p. 145.

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