The most intimate Picasso in Vigo and A Coruña
Do you like Picasso? And Northen Spain? Then you have a date in Vigo and A Coruña. The Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza organizes an outstanding selection of Picasso paintings and drawings, held in a private collection and in many cases never before seen on public display.
‘Picasso. A Laboratory of Styles’ offers an exceptional insight into the most personal and intimate world of the most influential artist of the 20th century, an insight that is divided between the Foundation’s two venues: A Coruña, with 57 female portraits, and Vigo with 32 still lifes.
Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Málaga, Spain. Picasso’s first exhibition took place in Barcelona in 1900, and that fall he went to Paris for the first of several stays during the early years of the century. His style developed from the Blue Period (1901–04) to the Rose Period (1905) to the pivotal work Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), and the subsequent evolution of Cubism [more] from an Analytic phase (ca. 1908–11) to its Synthetic phase (beginning in 1912–13). By 1936 the Spanish Civil War had profoundly affected Picasso, the expression of which culminated in his painting Guernica (1937, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid). Picasso’s association with the Communist Party began in 1944. From the late 1940s he lived in the south of France. Among the enormous number of exhibitions that were held during the artist’s lifetime, those at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1939 and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, in 1955 were most significant. In 1961 the artist married Jacqueline Roque, and they moved to Mougins.
Pablo Picasso died on April 8, 1973 in Mougins, France, while he and his wife Jacqueline entertained friends for dinner. His final words were “Drink to me, drink to my health, you know I can’t drink any more.” He was interred at Castle Vauvenargues’ park, in Vauvenargues, Bouches-du-Rhône. Jacqueline Roque prevented his children Claude and Paloma from attending the funeral
Exhibitions
Still Lifes. Foundation building, Vigo. 17 October - 3 February 2008
Female portraits. Foundation building, A Coruña. 18 October - 3 February 2008
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