The Architect's Table

Pablo Picasso · Paris, early 1912

You're looking at The Architect's Table, painted in Paris in early nineteen twelve. This is among the works where Picasso begins introducing stencilled lettering and trompe-l'oeil fragments — letting the real world back in as printed matter rather than as illusion.

Medium Oil on canvas mounted on panel · Dimensions 28 5/8 x 23 1/2" (72.6 x 59.7 cm) · Credit The William S. Paley Collection

Hanging beside it in Gallery 503: Cubist Landscape, The Three Windows, the Tower and the Wheel

More by Pablo Picasso here: She-Goat, Goat Skull and Bottle, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Boy Leading a Horse, Two Nudes, Woman Plaiting Her Hair