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Picasso Museum Announces Devouring Paris Picasso 1900-1907

The Picasso Museum in Barcelona announces Devouring Paris. Picasso 1900-1907 an exhibition on view from 1 July to 16 October 2011.

This exhibition, coproduced by the Picasso Museum with the Van Gogh Museum of Amsterdam, will present Picasso’s artistic evolution from his arrival in 1900 to Paris, where he discovered a thriving international art community, to 1907, when he assumed the role of leading the vanguard in the French capital.

His first direct contact with the works of the artists who were at the forefront of Paris’ artistic scene was a revelation for the painter. His reaction was immediate, as was reflected in both his discovery of new painting and graphic techniques and his adoption of new subject matter based on his own experiences of life and modern art.

This exhibition will bring together works by Picasso made in different media and works by artists such as Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Rodin, Steinlen, Gauguin and, in particular, Van Gogh, among others, whose work was at the height of its power in this period in Paris, and it aims not to compare them with each other but to give an idea of the visual stimulus that Parisian life and art represented for Picasso during the first decade of the 20th century.

Curator: Marilyn McCully, an independent curator specialising in Picasso

Image: Vincent Van Gogh – Pietat (segons Delacroix)- Saint-Rémy, 1889 – Oli sobre tela – 73 x 60,5 cm – Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam – © Van Gogh Museum

The Picasso Museum in Barcelona is a key reference for understanding the formative years of Pablo Ruiz Picasso. The genius of the young artist is revealed through the more than 3,800 works that make up the permanent collection. Furthermore, the Museu Picasso, opened in 1963, also reveals his deep relationship with Barcelona: an intimate, solid relationship that was shaped in his adolescence and youth, and continued until his death.

Museu Picasso de Barcelona
Carrer Montcada 15-23
08003 Barcelona
Tel 93 256 30 00
Fax 93 315 01 02
[email protected]
www.museupicasso.bcn.cat

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