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Picasso on Paper

Sat 15 October 2016, 11.00am5.00pm

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Picasso on Paper

This exhibition brings fresh attention to Pablo Picasso’s brilliantly inventive career as a printmaker. More than 70 works from Dusseldorf’s Museum Kunstpalast reveal Picasso’s remarkable ability to explore different media and creative techniques, offering a glimpse into the artist’s intimate and passionate domestic relationships. Picasso regarded printmaking as every inch an important art form as painting. So much so that he created over 2000 prints during his lifetime. He received no formal training in the craft, but acquired great skill on his own volition and under the tutelage of others.

This show – with works dating from the 1920s to the 1960s – traces Picasso experiments with technique and subject matter in various media, including etching, lithography, aquatint and linocut. Taking the visitor on a journey through four decades of his work, thematically grouped to give a greater understanding of his relationships with several subjects – including family, bullfighting and mythology.  Picasso on Paper is complemented by eight ceramics that he created in association with the Madoura pottery near Antibes in Provence.

 

Images above, left to right:
Pablo Picasso, Jumping with the pole, 1957, Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2016
Pablo Picasso, Françoise, 1946, Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2016
Pablo Picasso, Dying Minotaur, 1933, Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2016