The Metropolitan Museum of Art
April 27, 2010–August 15, 2010
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973)
Carles Casagemas
© 2010 Estate of Pablo Picasso
Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This landmark exhibition is the first to
focus exclusively on works by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) in the
Museum's collection. It features three hundred works, including the
Museum's complete holdings of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and
ceramics by Picasso—never before seen in their entirety—as well as a
selection of the artist's prints. The Museum's collection reflects the
full breadth of the artist's multi-sided genius as it asserted itself
over the course of his long and influential career. Notable for its remarkable constellation
of early figure paintings, which include the commanding At
the Lapin Agile (1905) and the iconic portrait
of Gertrude Stein (1906), the Museum's collection also stands apart
for its exceptional cache of drawings, which remain relatively little
known, despite their importance and number. The key subjects that
variously sustained Picasso's interest—the pensive harlequins of his
Blue and Rose periods, the faceted figures and tabletop still lifes of
his cubist years, the monumental heads and classicizing bathers of the
1920s, the raging bulls and dreaming nudes of the 1930s, and the rakish
cavaliers and musketeers of his final years—are amply represented by
works ranging in date from a dashing self-portrait of 1900 (Self–Portrait
"Yo") to the fanciful Standing
Nude and Seated Musketeer painted nearly seventy years later.
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