One of Pablo Picasso’s earliest Cubist paintings, this still life depicts a wooden salt box, a sliced melon in a crystal bowl, and a rumpled cloth resting on the table. A green fan is opened and propped against the wall, where it dissolves into faceted, geometric planes. While some objects are depicted from a frontal view, the table is tilted upright, as if seen from the ceiling, providing multiple simultaneous views of the scene, which became typical of Cubist works of art.
Cleveland Museum of Art
1907
Meeting Georges Braque
Picasso met Georges Braque; together they became the founders of Cubism, a movement that rejected the traditions of naturalism.
1907
Beginning of Work with the Kahnweiler Gallery
Picasso joined the recently opened Paris gallery of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, who became one of the first champions of his work and of Cubism.
May 1907
Visit to the Ethnographic Museum
At the Ethnographic Museum in Paris Picasso was struck by the masks of the peoples of Africa, Oceania, and Polynesia — an experience that influenced the formation of Cubism.
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