Picasso. Masterpieces exhibited at Paris Musée Picasso

Picasso's masterpieces reunited in Paris, this is the feat of the Picasso-Paris Museum. The Bathers, the Harlequins, the Dance, the Reaper without forgetting the Goat, more than 20 masterpieces of Picasso are reunited from September 4, 2018 to January 13, 2019 for our greatest happiness!

Picasso Masterpieces, this is the exhibition offered by the Picasso Museum Paris from September 4, 2018 to January 13, 2019. With such an appealing title, the Picasso Museum Paris is doing very well, but also challenging itself. As a reminder, the concept of "masterpiece" was invented in 1200 within the craftsmen's trade, to evoke Art in itself.

But what meaning does the notion of masterpiece have when we talk about Pablo Picasso, this artistic genius? The exhibition Picasso. Masterpieces! answers this question by bringing together masterpieces, some of which are being shown in Paris for the first time, but also by presenting the events that contributed to each work becoming an icon.

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Les Baigneuses, Les Arlequins, La Danse, Le Faucheur, La Chèvre, each of these works is undeniably anchored in the History of Art, but Emilie Bouvard, Coline Zellal and Julielle Degennes, the curators of the exhibition, had to go back to the genesis of each work and to the crucial steps that led the public to consider them as icons.

Each work is developed in a room, with preparatory works, sketches and handwritten letters from artists and gallery owners encouraging Pablo Picasso in the stages of making his works.

For the first time, we can observe and analyze Science and Charity, a work that the artist made at age 16 on the theme of visiting the sick. In it, he recounts the death of his young sister Conchita in 1895, by inscribing here his father as a doctor.

Emilie Bouvard says:"It is unclear how Pablo Picasso judged the reception of his own work, but his subscription to Lit-tout, the former Argus of the press, indicates at the very least that he was eager to be informed of what was being said about him and his artistic work."

Prolific, Pablo Picasso will have left behind him more than 120,000 works, enough to give us material for beautiful exhibitions, like this one or the one at the Musée d'Orsay which takes place in parallel on his blue and pink periods.

Please note that it's been over 4 years since our last visit, so the place and experience may have changed.

Picasso, Masterpieces exhibition at the Picasso Museum

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