Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time
04 Dec 2016 - 07 May 2017
Pablo Picasso
Student with Newspaper (L’etudiant au journal), 1913–14
Oil and sand on canvas
28 3⁄4 × 23 3/8 in. (73 × 59.5 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, promised gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection, © 2016 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Student with Newspaper (L’etudiant au journal), 1913–14
Oil and sand on canvas
28 3⁄4 × 23 3/8 in. (73 × 59.5 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, promised gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection, © 2016 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
PICASSO AND RIVERA: CONVERSATIONS ACROSS TIME
4 December 2016 – 7 May 2017
Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera were contemporaries, erstwhile competitors, equally ambitious and prolific as artists, internationally famous, and well aware of their larger-than-life personalities. Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time presents moments of intersection in the formation of modernism both in Europe and Latin America, and asks how these towering figures of the twentieth century engaged with their respective ancient Mediterranean and Pre-Columbian worlds. The exhibition compares their artistic trajectories beginning with their similar academic training to their shared investment in Cubism and their return to an engagement with antiquity from the 1920s through the 1950s. By placing 150 paintings, etchings, and watercolors in dialogue with each other and with singular ancient objects, Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time aims to advance the understanding of Picasso and Rivera’s practice, particularly in how their contributions were deeply influenced by the forms, myths, and structures of the arts of antiquity.
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes.
Support is provided by The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation with additional funding from the Robert Lehman Foundation. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
All exhibitions at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Exhibition Fund. Major annual support is provided by Kitzia and Richard Goodman, with generous annual funding from Louise and Brad Edgerton, Edgerton Foundation, Emily and Teddy Greenspan, Jenna and Jason Grosfeld, and Lenore and Richard Wayne.
4 December 2016 – 7 May 2017
Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera were contemporaries, erstwhile competitors, equally ambitious and prolific as artists, internationally famous, and well aware of their larger-than-life personalities. Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time presents moments of intersection in the formation of modernism both in Europe and Latin America, and asks how these towering figures of the twentieth century engaged with their respective ancient Mediterranean and Pre-Columbian worlds. The exhibition compares their artistic trajectories beginning with their similar academic training to their shared investment in Cubism and their return to an engagement with antiquity from the 1920s through the 1950s. By placing 150 paintings, etchings, and watercolors in dialogue with each other and with singular ancient objects, Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time aims to advance the understanding of Picasso and Rivera’s practice, particularly in how their contributions were deeply influenced by the forms, myths, and structures of the arts of antiquity.
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes.
Support is provided by The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation with additional funding from the Robert Lehman Foundation. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
All exhibitions at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Exhibition Fund. Major annual support is provided by Kitzia and Richard Goodman, with generous annual funding from Louise and Brad Edgerton, Edgerton Foundation, Emily and Teddy Greenspan, Jenna and Jason Grosfeld, and Lenore and Richard Wayne.