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Still Life with Chair Caning

Still life with Chair Caning is an ovular 1912 mixed-media collage work by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) which is considered to be the first cubist collage as well as by some the first assemblage. The work consists of oil and printed oilcloth (a waterproof fabric used for tablecloths - here imitating the chair caning material i.e. rattan) on canvas edged with rope. It is said that by introducing the facsimile of a newspaper into the work that he was "inserting a fragment of reality into the fictive realm of painting".{{cite web |last1=Picasso |first1=Pablo |title=Still Life with Chair Caning |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/755493 |website=Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=24 March 2025 |date=1912}}

In this piece still life and in turn the elements which go into a restaurant or cafe

dining experience are the crux of the literal pictorial ingredients. It is one of the initial Synthetic Cubist collage works. ..."In these works, still-life objects overlap and intermingle, barely maintaining identifiable two-dimensional forms, losing individual surface texture, and merging into the background—achieving goals nearly opposite to those of traditional still life."Richardson, John. A Life Of Picasso, The Cubist Rebel 1907–1916. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991, p.225. {{ISBN|978-0-307-26665-1}}{{cite web |title=Still Life with Chair-Caning (1912) by Pablo Picasso |url=https://www.artchive.com/artwork/still-life-with-chair-caning-pablo-picasso-1912/ |website=Artchive |access-date=24 March 2025}}

The work is held in the permanent collection of the Musée Picasso in Paris.Seeing Picasso, Fixing Cézanne - Peter V. Moak - Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=NghLDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT28&dq=still+life+with+the+caned+chair&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&ovdme=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi6j5_L69WLAxUwhIkEHVANKhsQ6AF6BAgLEAM#v=onepage&q=still%20life%20with%20the%20caned%20chair&f=false

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