“It is the hand that does all, often without intervention of thought.” - Pablo Picasso
No artist has changed the world of the image as radically as Pablo Picasso. The endless possibilities that rested in the movements of his hand has led to a prolific œuvre. Picasso strove to capture the spontaneous, immediate sensations of the modern world around him through a wealth of themes in constantly changing styles. This might be why his drawings and watercolours are never static, fixed, or completed. Rather, they are simultaneously a product of the past, present and future. His work, like him, is timeless.
Picasso's Tranche de Melon sees a strikingly abstract take on his earlier still life works from the early twentieth century. Clearly aware of the trends towards abstraction emerging by the end of the 1940s, Picasso's pastel colours and gestural strokes in his depiction of a melon slice departs from his previous stylistic approach to painting.