015 - Still Life by Lamplight (B.1102), 1962
Details
Year: 1962
Edition: 75
Sheet size: 29.62 x 24.5"
Image size: 25.12 x 20.75"
Framed size: 43 x 38"
Signature: signed "Picasso' lower right and annotated lower left
About the Work
"Still Life by Lamplight (B.1102)" is a linocut on wove paper created by Pablo Picasso in 1962. From the edition of 75, the artwork is signed 'Picasso' lower right. The artwork is framed in a Spanish-style, closed-corner, black and gold frame and has a framed size of 43 x 38". The artwork ships framed and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
"Still Life by Lamplight (B.1102)," executed in 1962, stands as a masterful example of Pablo Picasso’s late-period graphic work, combining classical subject matter with bold modernist execution. Featuring a table-top arrangement of fruit, glass, and a glowing lamp, this linocut transforms the humble still life into a dynamic study of light, form, and color. With confident lines and rich tonal contrast, the composition reveals Picasso’s lifelong ability to revitalize traditional genres through radical simplicity and technical innovation.
In "Still Life by Lamplight (B.1102)," Picasso re-engages with the centuries-old still life tradition, a genre he explored throughout his career, and renders it with modernist immediacy. The objects depicted are familiar: fruit – likely apples or pomegranates, a glass, and a lamp casting light over the arrangement. But the treatment is anything but conventional. The linocut’s strong outlines and stark contrasts carve the forms into the paper with sculptural force. Each element is both representational and abstracted, reduced to essential forms, yet arranged with playful asymmetry and tension. The light from the lamp is not just an illuminating presence, but a compositional anchor, linking the objects and casting dramatic shadows. There is a theatricality here, a sense that these everyday items are part of a larger narrative.
While the still life is often associated with quiet observation, Picasso injects it with vigor and drama. The table becomes a stage, the objects are characters, and the lamp acts as spotlight. The domestic becomes universal. "Still Life by Lamplight (B.1102)" is a testament to Pablo Picasso’s enduring ability to find the extraordinary in the ordinary. It captures not only a table-top scene but a moment of quiet drama, light, and form, all filtered through the eye of a master in full command of his technique.
About the Artist
015 - Still Life by Lamplight (B.1102), 1962
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