About the exhibition
What is the meaning of masterpiece for Pablo Picasso? The exhibition Picasso: Masterpieces! answers this question by bringing together some of his greatest works, some of which will be shown in Paris for the first time. Thanks to exceptional loans, masterpieces from all over the world will be displayed alongside those from the Musée National Picasso-Paris.
The assembled collection offers a new look at Picasso’s creativity with special attention given to his critical reception. It explores the exhibitions, articles and publications that accompanied each artwork and helped forge their reputation as masterpieces over the years. The Musée National Picasso-Paris archives play an essential part in telling this story.
Selected artworks
The curators
Emilie Bouvard
Curator at the Musée national Picasso-Paris
Coline Zellal
Curator at the Musée national Picasso-Paris
Pictures
Conferences
Conferences
Musée national Picasso-Paris's conferences
Each exhibition at the Musée national Picasso-Paris gives rise to a series of monthly lectures, free and open to everyone in an intimate format. Led by curators, professionals or researchers from a variety of disciplines, they are an opportunity to extend or deepen the themes and reflections addressed in the exhibitions.
Catalogue
Catalogue
TO BE NOTED
- Major works in this exhibition come from all over the world, some of which have never before been exhibited in Paris
- The opportunity to question how and why these works became known as masterpieces
- A rich and comprehensive critical apparatus, by the foremost specialists of Picasso and through unpublished archives from the Musée national Picasso-Paris
- In co-publication with the Musée national Picasso-Paris
320 pages
Co-publication Musée national Picasso-Paris/éditions Gallimard
