Picasso
25 Feb - 01 May 2011
The Power of Eros - Prints from the Georges Bloch Collection
Pablo Picasso continually and intensely experimented with the many very different methods of printing, producing masterly results that demonstrate his great facility. Now the Kunstmuseum Bern gives insight into the rich collection of Georges Bloch.
The Zurich textile industrialist Georges Bloch (1901-1984) collected Picasso prints from the mid-1920s onwards and built up a comprehensive collection of 2000 sheets with his profound understanding of the artist’s graphic work – often purchasing first impressions.
Bloch gave roughly a quarter of his collection to the Eidgenössische Gottfried Keller Stiftung as a gift. The foundation had these holdings deposited in eight different Swiss Museums. The only condition the museums need to comply to is that every five years they must, by turns, organize a presentation of the holdings from the gift to the public in a show.
Now the Kunstmuseum Bern – after almost 40 years – will give insight into this rich collection. The heart of the exhibition embraces subject matter that Picasso pursued with great ardor in the print medium and was his lifelong preoccupation: the desiring and desirable female body.
Pablo Picasso continually and intensely experimented with the many very different methods of printing, producing masterly results that demonstrate his great facility. Now the Kunstmuseum Bern gives insight into the rich collection of Georges Bloch.
The Zurich textile industrialist Georges Bloch (1901-1984) collected Picasso prints from the mid-1920s onwards and built up a comprehensive collection of 2000 sheets with his profound understanding of the artist’s graphic work – often purchasing first impressions.
Bloch gave roughly a quarter of his collection to the Eidgenössische Gottfried Keller Stiftung as a gift. The foundation had these holdings deposited in eight different Swiss Museums. The only condition the museums need to comply to is that every five years they must, by turns, organize a presentation of the holdings from the gift to the public in a show.
Now the Kunstmuseum Bern – after almost 40 years – will give insight into this rich collection. The heart of the exhibition embraces subject matter that Picasso pursued with great ardor in the print medium and was his lifelong preoccupation: the desiring and desirable female body.