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Art Revolutionaries
An exhibition (Art Revolutionaries, 6 Duke Street, London SW 1, from 18 January-10 February 2017) coming to London in January will attempt to recreate the impact of the Spanish pavilion of 1937, a little gallery built as cheaply as possible at the Paris International Exposition by Spain’s republican government at […]
In Barcelona, Picasso Museum focuses on Dalí and hidden works of the blue period
“What saw the light, in the end, was the result of the findings that I discarded”, said Pablo Picasso about his creative process. The Picasso Museum will kick off the year by diving into five works from his Blue Period that hide another beneath, in a seminar on restoration and […]
Picasso 1901, the year of Picasso
“Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901,” on view at the Courtauld Institute of Art (through May 26), is one of those fascinating exhibitions that forcefully make a point unrelated to the stated purpose. Barnaby Wright, who curated this exhibition, writes in the catalog that “it presents a selection of Picasso’s major figure […]
A family affair: The Stein Collection
Who wouldn’t have loved to be in Paris in the early 1920s, in Gertrude Stein’s lively drawing room lined with paintings -just as Woody Allen imagined it in “Midnight in Paris”? Stein and Picasso became close friends in 1905. The famous portrait of Gertrude, done after an enormous number of […]
The house of love
The Castle of Vauvenargues, near Aix-en-Provence, in France, has been opened to guided visits, for 2 years now, but only in summer. The Castle of Vauvenargues was the residence, between 1958 and 1960, of Pablo Picasso and his family, Jacqueline first of all. The park of this castle is the […]