The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe)
1929 · LACMA, Los Angeles
The words under the pipe are correct, since a painting of a pipe is not a pipe, which is the whole and entire joke.
★ 7.9
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Boy with a Pipe
1905 · Private collection
A boy from the street in a crown of roses, painted the year Picasso's blue gloom warmed into rose.
★ 6.9
Self-Portrait (Rivera)
1907 · Museo Dolores Olmedo Patino, Mexico City
Rivera as a student in Europe, years before the murals, still working inside the academic tradition he would later blow up.
★ 4.2