Pablo Picasso: The Dream (Le Rêve) 1932. Private collection © Succession Picasso/DACS London, 2017
‘Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy’ at Tate Modern ‘The EY Exhibition: Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy’: Tate Modern stages its first ever solo exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s work, one of the most significant shows the gallery has ever staged. 8 March to 9 September 2018.]]>
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”The EY Exhibition: Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy” takes visitors on a month-by-month journey through 1932, a time so pivotal in Picasso’s life and work that it has been called his ‘year of wonders’. More than 100 outstanding paintings, sculptures and works on paper demonstrates his prolific and restlessly inventive character. They strip away common myths to reveal the man and the artist in his full complexity and richness
1932 was an extraordinary year for Picasso, even by his own standards. His paintings reached a new level of sensuality and he cemented his celebrity status as the most influential artist of the early 20th century. Over the course of this year he created some of his best loved works, including “Nude Woman in a Red Armchair”, an anchor point of Tate’s collection, confident colour-saturated portraits and Surrealist experiments, including thirteen seminal ink drawings of the Crucifixion. His virtuoso paintings also riffed on the voluptuous sculptures he had produced some months before at his new country estate.
In his personal life, throughout 1932, Picasso kept a delicate balance between tending to his wife Olga Khokhlova and their 11-year-old son Paulo, and his passionate love affair with Marie-Thérèse Walter, 28 years his junior. The exhibition bring these complex artistic and personal dynamics to life with an unprecedented range of loans from collections around the world, including many record-breaking works held in private hands. Highlights include “Girl before a Mirror”, a signature painting that rarely leaves The Museum of Modern Art, and the legendary “The Dream”, a virtuoso masterpiece depicting the artist’s muse in dreamy abandon, which has never been exhibited in the UK before.
1932 was also a time of invention and reflection. Having recently turned 50, in collaboration with Christian Zervos, Picasso embarked on the first volume of what remains the most ambitious catalogue of an artist’s work ever made, listing more than 16,000 paintings and drawings.
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