Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Lamp and Cherries

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Lamp and Cherries
Alternate Title: 
La lampe et les cerises
Image View: 
Details, including oil lamp and African mask
Creator: 
Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter, 1881-1973)
Location: 
repository: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montréal, Québec, Canada) 1968.1610
Location Note: 
1380 Sherbrooke Street West
GPS: 
+45.4987-73.5801
Date: 
1945 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
French
Style Period: 
Cubist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
painting (visual work)
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
oil paint on canvas
Technique: 
oil painting (technique)
Measurements: 
72.4 cm x 98.8 cm (width)
Subjects: 
still life; fruit; cherries; vanitas; mirror; table
Description: 
Using objects that were right at hand in his studio, the artist reinterpreted the vanitas (a still life with overt reminders of mortality, the transience of human life) and its classic components: the mirror, a symbol of the passage of time, reflects nothing, and the oil lamp placed on the table sheds no light. Despite the food restrictions in effect at the end of the war, the cherries in the dish introduce an element of joy and renewed life evocative of the liberation of Paris and the regaining of freedom. (Source: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; http://www.mmfa.qc.ca/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-PICASSO-PAC-A02
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.