The Reservoir Horta De Ebro 1909 Museum of Modern Art New York
Pablo Picasso The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro Horta de Sant Joan, summer 1909
This landscape was among several Picasso produced in southern Spain in 1909 that were disquisitional to the development of the early Cubist style. Depicting the town of Horta de Sant Joan, The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro is composed of simplified geometric shapes. Picasso used interlocking planes to fuse the background's rugged topography with the terra-cotta and stucco compages of the hamlet in the foreground. The composition exemplifies the spatial ambiguity characteristic of Cubism: the steep hillside seems to be seen from below, while the curved shape at the lesser—a cistern—provides a downward view into a reflective pool of h2o.
Gallery label from 2019
The landscapes Picasso produced in Espana in 1909 were critical to the development of the early on Cubist style, in which subjects are rendered from multiple perspectives using faceted forms and simplified geometric shapes. In The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro (titled using the artist's name for the boondocks of Horta de Sant Joan), Picasso used interlocking planes to fuse the state's rugged topography with the terra-cotta and stucco architecture of the hamlet. The spatial ambiguity characteristic of Cubism is evident: the steep hillside suggests an upward gaze while the curved shape at the lesser—a cistern—reveals a downward view into a reflection on water.
Gallery label from Cezanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection, July 17–August 31, 2009.
- Medium
- Oil on canvass
- Dimensions
- 24 1/8 x 20 ane/8" (61.five x 51.1 cm)
- Credit
- Souvenir of Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller
- Object number
- 81.1991
- Copyright
- © 2022 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Section
- Painting and Sculpture
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Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family
Dec xix, 1970–Mar 1, 1971
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Picasso in the Collection of The Museum of Modernistic Art
Feb 3–Apr 2, 1972
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Picasso in the Drove of The Museum of Mod Art
February 3–April 2, 1972
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Pablo Picasso: A Retrospective
May 16–Sep 30, 1980
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Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism
Sep 24, 1989–Jan 16, 1990
one other work identified
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Masterpieces from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Manet to Picasso
Jun ix–Sep 6, 1994
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Masterpieces from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Manet to Picasso
Jun 9–Sep six, 1994
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Painting &
Sculpture Ii Nov 20, 2004–Aug 5, 2015
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Cezanne to Picasso: Paintings from the David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection
Jul 17–Aug 31, 2009
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504: New Expression in Deutschland and Austria
Ongoing
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503: Effectually Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Autumn 2019-Fall 2021
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503: Around Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Autumn 2019-Fall 2021
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503: Around Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Fall 2019-Autumn 2021
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503: Effectually Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Fall 2019-Fall 2021
4 other works identified
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1909, Pablo Picasso.1909 - 1913, Leo Stein (1872-1947) and Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), Paris, acquired from the artist.
1913 - 1946, Gertrude Stein, Paris and San Francisco.
1946 - 1968, Estate of Gertrude Stein, c/o Alice B. Toklas, Paris.
1968, The Museum of Modernistic Fine art Syndicate, New York, purchased from the heirs of the Stein estate.
1968 - 1991, David and Peggy Rockefeller, New York, acquired from the Museum of Mod Fine art Syndicate.
1990, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as fractional and promised souvenir from David and Peggy Rockefeller.
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