Still Life with Chair Caning
work by Picasso
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Still Life with Chair Caning, oil and commercially printed oilcloth on canvas surrounded by rope by Pablo Picasso, 1912; in the Picasso Museum, Paris.
© S.P.A.D.E.M. Paris, 1972Learn about this topic in these articles:
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…the earliest examples is Picasso’s “Still Life with Chair Caning” (1911–12), in which a piece of oilcloth with an imitation chair caning design was pasted onto the painting, and a rope was used to frame the picture. Subsequent art movements such as Dada and Surrealism explored the possibilities of assemblage.…
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