Works that Picasso kept alongside
him throughout his entire life and by which he was inspired in
different ways as time passed will be the center of an
exhibition from November 10 until May 6 at Genoa's Palazzo
Ducale.
The show is the latest in a long string of ones marking the
centenary of the Spanish genius's trip to Italy.
There will be over 50 works from the Picasso Museum in Paris,
from which the artist did not part up until his death.
Entitled 'Picasso: Masterpieces from the Paris Picasso
Museum', the exhibition is promoted by the Palazzo Ducale
Fondazione per la Cultura, the municipality of Genoa and the
Liguria regional government.
It was organized by Mondomostre Skra and the Paris Picasso
Museum and is part of the broader 'Picasso-Mediterranee' project
started this year by the Paris museum that will run through 2019
and in which over 60 institutions are involved through shows on
the "stubbornly Mediterranean" work of the artist.
Curated by Coline Zellal, the Genoa event will use famous
masterpieces and numerous photos to lead exhibition-goers along
the artistic path taken by the Catalan genius, documenting the
various periods of his career and styles he embraced and
reinvented from the early twentieth century through the 1970s.
At the same time, it will showcase the works he held most
dear and the locations that inspired him.
From preparatory sketches for 'Demoiselles d'Avignon' until
the works of his final period, the exhibition will cover over
half a century of experimentation, bearing witness to the
extraordinary variety characterizing Picasso's paintings, in
which his private life (relationships, love, homes) always
played a major role.
Thus, the rare photographs from the Bateau-Lavoir atelier
show Picasso's social life in Montmartere and not only the
sketches for 'Demoiselles d'Avignon'.
In Rue des Grands-Augustins, the painter lived with Dora Maar
and there are dozens of portraits of the woman plastering the
walls of the atelier, while in the 'La Californie' villa in
Cannes, the photos of his children Claude and Paloma closely
echo the portraits he painted of them in the same period. In
Mougins, the painter posed alongside his works inside his home
and garden.
The ten sections of works showcased at Palazzo Ducale
decorated the walls of his homes and ateliers, were taken with
him when he moved and constitute a true laboratory of shapes.
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