Nature Morte à la Cruche (Still Life with Jug)

Needlework in wool  c. 1970

670 x 820 mm

A vintage French tapestry wall hanging of the cubist still-life painting by Pablo Picasso, Pitcher and Bowl of Fruit (1931) in the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The modernist hand-made needlework is stitched using brightly coloured wool softly softened with age. As Picasso became a household name, his designs filtered down into domestic objects. This piece has been created from the needlepoint kit by the French tapestry company Steiner Frères. Picasso was known to collaborate with artisans creating woven objects such as the magnificent large tapestries based on his paintings Harlequin, Three Musicians, Guernica and 16 others, in the Rockefeller collection at Kykuit, the Rockefeller home located in Sleepy Hollow, New York.