©Pablo Picasso - Lobster and Cat 1965

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Lobster and Cat 1965

Lobster and Cat 1965
73x92cm oil/canvas
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
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From Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York:
The latest of Pablo Picasso’s works in the Guggenheim’s Thannhauser Collection, Lobster and Cat attests to the artist’s unbroken creative energy during the last years of his life. The painting demonstrates Picasso’s ability to derive serious implications from what is essentially humorous. The subject of the lobster and cat refers to one of the most beloved paintings of French art, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin’s The Ray (1728, Musée du Louvre, Paris). In both paintings, a cat is aroused to vicious hissing by the menacing aspect of an item of seafood that is as delicious to the palate as it is horrendous to the eye.
Fred Licht