Big exhibition will reflect life and loves of artist, from his first professional print in 1904 to 1960s masterpieces
Picasso’s Still Life with Glass Under the Lamp . The British Museum says the prints reveal the artist’s ‘relentless creativity and curiosity and eagerness to find new ways of making images’.Picasso’s Still Life with Glass Under the Lamp . The British Museum says the prints reveal the artist’s ‘relentless creativity and curiosity and eagerness to find new ways of making images’.
The exhibits will range from his first professional print of 1904, considered one of the greatest in the history of printmaking, to later masterpieces of the 1960s including a remarkable set of hundreds of prints created when he was almost 87.Catherine Daunt, the British Museum’s curator of modern and contemporary prints, said that the Picasso prints reveal his “relentless creativity and curiosity and eagerness to find new ways of making images”.
The exhibition, titled Picasso: printmaker, will open with his first print as a professional artist, 1904’s The Frugal Meal, a powerful depiction of two emaciated figures. One of his lovers, Fernande Olivier, once described it as “an intense expression of poverty and alcoholism”.when most of his paintings had blue and green palette. He was partly reflecting what he saw around him … in Montmartre.
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