The Museu Picasso de Barcelona is the chief reference point for knowledge about Pablo Picasso’s 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 artist’s youth and later life, such as the Blue Period, also contains the magnificent Las Meninas series, a rich interpretive exercise based on Velázquez’s famous work.
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28 May 2010 - 05 September 2010
Picasso vs. Rusiñol
The exhibition explores the various connections between both artists and shows the influence of Rusiñol and the Barcelona art scene on Picasso, an influence from which he gradually distanced himself as he became more established in Paris.
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15 October 2010 - 16 January 2011
Picasso looks at Degas
This exhibition will trace for the first time the links between two of the most important artists of modern times. The show explores Picasso’s life-long fascination with Edgar Degas and his work, and amply represents the media used by both artists: drawing, pastels, painting, sculpture, printmaking and photography.
The outcome of extensive international research, this exceptional show brings together outstanding works on loan from some of the world’s most important institutions and collections, and promises to make a unique contribution to the reappraisal of Picasso’s work.
Picasso-Degas casts a new light on the emergence of modernism in the twentieth century, as a new generation of artists assimilated, reinvented or turned away from the Impressionist art of their predecessors.