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No image due to Copyright restrictions. | | | Picasso, Pablo (1881 - 1973) Spain
Femme dans un Fauteuil, 1929
Oil on canvas; 91.6 x 72.4 cm Surrealism
UID 102-446
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Biography
Spanish painter, sculptor, designer, decorator and writer In 1891, he moved to La Coruña, where he was taught painting by his father. In 1985, he attended the La Lonja art school in Barcelona and, the following year, opened his private studio in the same city. He was a member of the group of intellectuals that frequented the café El Quatre Gats and, in 1900, he visited Paris for the first time, where he painted representations of images of the music hall and circus life. 1901 to 1904 is called his "blue period" and is characterised by blue portraits of people in exile, beggars and prostitutes. During this period, Picasso produced his first sculptures. In 1904, he moved to Paris where he opened a new studio and where he met Matisse, Derain and Gertrude Stein, the first person to collect his works. His painting moved into the "pink period". During this period, Picasso painted figures connected to popular artistic imagery like the acrobats, harlequins and clowns. In the 1905 Salon d' Automne, he saw same works by Cézanne and Rousseau, and their influence was fundamental for the evolution of his artistic career. In 1907, his style changed completely particularly through the work Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, in which the bases for the development of a new style, Cubism, were laid. In 1909, along with Braque, he developed Analytical Cubism and opened a new studio. Between 1910 and 1912, he sold paintings to the Russian collector Sergey Shchukin and to Gertrude Stein and he held exhibitions in several countries, from Moscow to New York. Like Braque, with whom he worked intensively in that period, Picasso refused to show his works at the Salons d' Automne and at the Salons des Indépendants. In 1912, he began his three-dimensional paintings, including metal sheets and wire as constructive elements, like his first papiers collés, a variation of the collage technique. In 1913, he participated in collective exhibitions in Vienna, Prague, New York and Moscow. In the same year, he held his first retrospective exhibition with works between 1901 and 1912, at the Thannhauser Gallery in Munich. Between 1916 and 1924, he designed several productions for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. In the 20s, Picasso had a neo-classical period and, in 1930, he created a sculpture studio at the Boisgeloup castle. In 1937, he painted one of his most famous works, Guernica, for the Paris World Fair, using abstraction, deformation and anatomic mutilation as a protest against the bombing of the Basque town by the German Condor Legion. In 1940, he moved back to Paris and, in 1944, he joined the French Communist Party. In the 50, he began exploring the works of the old masters and painted variations of pieces by Velasquez, Delacroix and Manet. In his striking later style, from 1960 until his death, Picasso strongly opposed the growing predominance of Abstractionism. He donated all his works to the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, opened in 1970 and in 1985 the Musée Picasso in Paris was created. Picasso is considered the dominant figure of 20th century art, with a central role in the development of the image of the modern artist.
Exhibitions
Picasso Galerie Georges Petit, France 01-01-1931 ~ 31-01-1932
Homage to Picasso Marlborough Gallery Inc., USA 01-10-1971 ~ 30-10-1971
Cubism and Abstract Art The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA, NY), USA 01-03-1996 ~ 30-04-1996
Picasso: Forty Years of his Art The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA, NY), USA 01-11-1939 ~ 31-01-1939
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, Sintra Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 04-07-2001 ~ 30-06-2001
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 10-10-2003 ~ 13-03-2004
Pomar - Autobiography Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-05-2004 ~ 07-11-2004
Grande Escala - Colecção Berardo Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 09-10-2004 ~ 18-03-2005
Erich Kahn - Forgotten Generation Jewish Survivor German Expressionist Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 05-05-2005 ~ 09-10-2005
Fernando Lemos and Surrealism - The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 26-11-2005 ~ 18-06-2006
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira, Portugal 12-07-2003 ~ 14-09-2003
Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, France 05-10-2001 ~ 14-01-2002
Aquisições Recentes da Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1998 ~ 04-04-1999
Nova Apresentação da Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-11-1999 ~ 01-03-2000
Berardo Museum Opening Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 24-08-2008
Picasso Harlequin 1917-1937 Complesso del Vittoriano, Italy 10-10-2008 ~ 08-02-2009
Arriscar o Real Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 08-06-2009 ~ 30-09-2009
Picasso: from caricature to the metamorphosis of style Museu Picasso de Barcelona, Spain 17-02-2003 ~ 18-05-2003
Undercover Surrealism Hayward Gallery, United Kingdom 11-05-2006 ~ 30-07-2006
Fragmentos Arte Contemporânea na Colecção Berardo MACE, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Portugal 24-09-2010 ~ 23-01-2011
Sous la Dictée de L’image Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 01-03-2010 ~ 26-05-2010
Tudo o que é Sólido Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 07-06-2010 ~ 12-09-2010
Observers Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 14-02-2011 ~ 29-05-2011
Bibliography
Christie's, Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture (Part I), 1997 Published by Christie's
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle, 2001 Published by Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon ISBN 2711843319
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176856
Cubism and Abstract Art, 1936 Published by The Museum of Modern Art
Erich Kahn - Forgotten Generation Jewish Survivor German Expressionist , 2005 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729903018
Fernando Lemos and Surrealism , 2005 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729903026
Grande Escala - The Berardo Collection, 2004 Published by Centro das Artes - Casa das Mudas ISBN 972890200X
Homage to Picasso, 1971 Published by Marlborough Gallery
Making Modernism, 1955
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2003 Published by Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira ISBN 9728705050
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2001 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742847
Pablo Picasso, 1930
Pablo Picasso, vol.7 (Oeuvres de 1926 à 1932), 1952
Picasso: de la caricatura a las metamorfosis de estilo, 2003 Published by Museu Picasso
Picasso: Forty Years of his Art, 1939 Published by The Museum of Modern Art
Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, A Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue: Towards Surrealism, 1925-1929, 1996 Published by Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, San Fransisco; Ed. The Picasso Project ISBN 1556602332
Pomar - Autobiography, 2004 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9723709066
Undercover - Surrealism, George Bataille and Documents, 2006 Published by Hayward Gallery Publishing, South Bank Centre ISBN 1853322504
Undercover - Surrealism, George Bataille and Documents, 2006 Published by Hayward Gallery Publishing, South Bank Centre ISBN 1853322504
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