Looking closely at this work Left: Picasso, Violin, Glass, Pipe, and Inkstand, 1912. Right: Picasso, Table with Bottle, Wineglass, and Newspaper, 1912.

Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning, May 1912. Two orientations and two readings come in here more forcefully: vertical (rope as frame), and horizontal (rope as carved edge of table); also chair caning as table cloth, with “glass on it (vertical); also substitution (rope as frame or carving, chair caning oil cloth as table cloth). Picasso, Still Life with Chair Caning, May 1912.

Picasso, Violin, after December 3, 1912. Pasted paper and charcoal Picasso, Violin, after December 3, 1912. Pasted paper and charcoal. 24 3/8 x 18 1/2”.

Left: Picasso, Guitar, Sheet Music, Glass, after November 18, 1912 Right: Picasso, Man with a Hat, 1912

Picasso, Bowl with Fruit, Violin, and Wineglass. Begun after December 2, 1912; completed after January 21, 1913. Charcoal, black chalk, watercolor, oil paint, coarse charcoal or black pigment in binding medium, on newspaper (Le Journal, 6 and 9 December 1912), blue and white laid charcoal papers, supported by thin cardboard 64 x 49.5 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art

Picasso, Guitar, after March 31, 1913 Picasso, Guitar, after March 31, 1913. Pasted paper, charcoal, ink, and chalk on blue paper, mounted on ragboard, 26 1/8 x 19 1/2" (66.4 x 49.6 cm).

Pablo Picasso, Bottle of Vieux Marc, Glass and Newspaper, spring 1913.

Pablo Picasso, Guitar, winter 1912-13 Pablo Picasso, Guitar, winter 1912-13. Sheet metal and wire, 30 1/2 x 13 3/4 x 7 5/8" (77.5 x 35 x 19.3 cm).

Grebo mask. Ivory Coast or Libera. Painted wood and fiber, 25 1/8” high. (part of Pablo Picasso’s collection)

“The discovery of [Grebo] art coincided with the end of analytical Cubism. The period of investigation of the external world was over. The Cubist painters now meant to represent things by invented signs which could make them appear as a whole in the consciousness of the spectator, without his being able to identify the details of the sign with details of the objects ‘read.’” —Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler