The Museu Picasso de Barcelona is the chief reference point for knowledge about Pablo Picassos formative years, and bears witness to the close relation between the artist and the city. Five Gothic mansions house this museum which, in addition to works from the artists youth and later life, such as the Blue Period, also contains the magnificent Las Meninas series, a rich interpretive exercise based on Velįzquezs famous work.
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30 November 2011 - 19 February 2012
Picasso 1936. Traces of an Exhibition
In 2009 the Museu Picasso acquired part of the fonds of documents belonging to the former Barcelona art gallery Sala Esteva, relating to the organization of the Picasso exhibition held there in January 1936.
The acquisition of this fonds, its documentary treatment and the research and dissemination that followed reflect the Museum's commitment to the study and appreciation of textual documents in our understanding of artistic processes. In keeping with this, and on the basis of the extant documentary traces of the 1936 Picasso exhibition, the Museum aims to show how that project became a reality, while emphasizing the significance of Picasso's relationship with Barcelona and, by extension, with Spain.