This exhibition
was a great opportunity to see a lot of works from the Musee National Picasso
Paris a lot closer to home. The museum
in Paris is under renovation and this meant that
the exhibition was able to go to Sydney
for several months. Unfortunately it
ends on the 25th March.
It then moves
to Toronto, Canada from 28 April to 23 August. And won’t be back on show in Paris until mid 2013.
The exhibition
was arranged by time. It was interesting
to see his early works, then his adoption of very abstract modernist forms,
then his later more figurative (relatively speaking) stuff.
My favourites
were:
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Torso – done at age 12
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Olga – his first wife, a ballerina
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The bathers – 1918
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The Reader – his mistress Marie Therese with whom he had a daughter
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The acrobat 1930 – weird but wonderful |
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Portrait of Dora Maar. Another mistress who he lived with for 10 years and had 2 children.
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Jacqueline – who became his second (and last wife) – don’t you love the long neck. He married her when he was 70.
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Hello, Carole.Thank you for your visit.
ReplyDeleteI have been to the Picasso exhibit twice now, and will try to get there once more before it leaves the AG-NSW. I was really put off the first time, because I thought it was full of his minor works. The second time, I realised that even his minor works are better than the major works of many other celebrated artists.
You got that right. Thanks for your comment.
DeleteIt was a great show and I love your choices. Imagine being able to draw like that at 12 years of age!
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DeleteThanks for visiting my blog, would have loved to have seen it, but I'm a bit too far away, your article is very interesting.
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DeleteThanks for letting me know about this exhibit. My husband LOVES Picasso, so we will definitely go when it's here in Toronto. We saw a special exhibit in Zurich a few years ago that was really nice. And we've been to the museum in Paris several times. :)
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DeleteI lived in Sydney for six years, and spent innumerable Sundays wandering around the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Why couldn't they have had exhibitions like this back then?! :)
ReplyDeleteIt was a bit of a oncer! Thanks for stopping by
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