Still Life with a Bottle of Rum

Pablo Picasso

1911 · Oil on canvas · Modern and Contemporary Art

Picasso painted this work in Céret, a small town in the foothills of the French Pyrenees, where he worked alongside Georges Braque (1882–1963). Their joint development of the painterly style called Cubism has become the stuff of legend. Made during the most abstract phase of Cubism, known as "high" or Analytic Cubism (1910–12), this work—which depicts a round tabletop with a stemmed glass at left, the bottle of rum at center, and a pipe in the right foreground—is among the first of Picasso's pictures to include letters. These may refer to the town, Céret, or, alternatively, to the title of a poster or newspaper.

Artist

Pablo Picasso

Date

1911

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998