The French capital’s Picasso museum is holding the first exhibition of the eminent artist’s work created specifically in 1932. The show features masterworks such as “Le Rêve” (The Dream), as well as archive materials, and runs from Oct. 10, 2017 to Feb. 11, 2018, at Musée Picasso, Paris.
“The art we make is a way of holding our newspaper.” The artist’s famous statement is explored by Musée Picasso in Paris, in an exhibition running October 10, 2017, to February 11, 2018. “Picasso 1932, Année érotique” chronicles the work produced in a specific year in the artist’s life, from January 1 to December 31, 1932. This pivotal year saw Picasso paint a sequence of 25 paintings of unbridled eroticism, featuring hidden but identifiable images, from breasts and phalluses to pubis.
Key works in the series include “Le Rêve” (the Dream), painted Jan. 24 that year, a portrait of the artist’s mistress, Marie-Thérèse Walter, who is represented simultaneously face-on and in profile, with the upper part of the face evoking a penis.
The year 1932 was also the period that saw the “museumification” of Picasso’s work, with retrospectives at Galerie Georges Petit in Paris and at Kunsthaus in Zurich, as well as the publication of the first volume of Christian Zervos’ “catalogue raisonné” of Pablo Picasso’s work.
In total, more than 110 paintings, drawings, engravings and sculptures feature in the show. Works are presented chronologically.
The event is organized in partnership with Tate Modern in London.
“Picasso 1932, Année érotique” runs Oct. 10, 2017, to Feb. 11, 2018, at Musée Picasso in Paris. JB
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