The exhibition will follow on from the retrospective "Picasso Sculpture" presented at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris from autumn 2015 until February 2016. The ambition of the exhibition is to reveal to the public a little studied aspect of Picasso's sculpture: its multiple dimension through the question of series and variations, fonts, prints and enlargements made from a selection of sculpted originals.

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Left: Woman's head with a bun, Boisgeloup, 1931, Picasso Museum, Antibes Photo © imageArt, Claude Germain © Succession Picasso
Center: The Pregnant Woman Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Picasso Museum in Paris) / Mathieu Rabeau © Succession Picasso
Right: Head of a man, 1930, Paris, Picasso Museum, Photo © RMN-Grand Palais / Mathieu Rabeau © Succession Picasso

The route, Picasso's works

20150517_PicassoSculptures_02The exhibition brings together exceptional sets from around the world (more than 70 loans) such as the series of six Absinthe glasses (1914): bronze prints that are both multiple and unique by the gesture of Picasso affixing on the surface of the glasses painting or covered with sand; the two versions of the Woman in the Garden created with the technical support of Julio González (1929-1930), brought together for the first time since 1932; or a large set of painted sheets (1954-1962) allowing us to question the creative processes at work in the transition from paper models to enlargements in sheet metal and engraved concrete. A dialogue will also be established between the sculptures of Picasso kept at MoMA, a privileged partner, and the sculptures of the Picasso museum, in particular through some famous pieces such as the Head of a woman (Fernande, 1909) (foundry plasters and cast iron in bronze), Goat skull, bottle and candle (two variations in painted bronze 1951-1953), La Guenon et son petit (1951: presentation of the original composite plaster next to the cast produced by Valsuani).

A new look will be brought to the sculptures kept at the Picasso museum, presented with their "doubles" or their "variants": such as the Vollard editions (Fou et Têtes de femme (Fernande), 1906 and 1909), the fonts made from sculptures by Boisgeloup (a Head of Marie-Thérèse in cement) or the different proposals imagined by Picasso for the Monument to Guillaume Apollinaire. The route of the exhibition, which brings together more than 160 sculptures, will be chronological and thematic and decorated with drawings and paintings by Picasso.

Curator

  • Virginie Perdrisot, curator in charge of sculptures at the Musée national Picasso-Paris (also co-curator of the exhibition "Picasso. Sculpture" presented at Moma)
  • Cécile Godefroy, art historian

To know more : www.museepicassoparis.fr