Picasso Before Picasso
28 drawings from Museu Picasso, Barcelona
29 Jun - 11 Sep 2016
PICASSO BEFORE PICASSO
28 drawings from Museu Picasso, Barcelona
29 June - 11 September 2016
Shedding light on the birth of a genius, showed here were works by an adolescent that contain the seeds of the Picasso who left his mark on most of the history of art in the first half of the twentieth century.
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was a formidable, inspired practitioner of the art of drawing – even before becoming ‘Picasso’. He was well aware of this himself. “At the age of fourteen I could draw like Raphael,” he liked to say. And he was right – more than right.
The interesting and fascinating thing is that he was not only technically skilled as a boy and as a young man, but also showed a maturity about humanity revealed by his ability to observe people and life as it is lived. Every drawing from his hand was an evidence not only of what was to come, but also of a rare, superb empathy with his subjects.
This Louisiana on Paper exhibition of 28 of Picasso’s earliest works took its point of departure in the collections of the Picasso Museum in Barcelona.
C.L. Davids Fond og Samling supported the exhibition.
28 drawings from Museu Picasso, Barcelona
29 June - 11 September 2016
Shedding light on the birth of a genius, showed here were works by an adolescent that contain the seeds of the Picasso who left his mark on most of the history of art in the first half of the twentieth century.
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was a formidable, inspired practitioner of the art of drawing – even before becoming ‘Picasso’. He was well aware of this himself. “At the age of fourteen I could draw like Raphael,” he liked to say. And he was right – more than right.
The interesting and fascinating thing is that he was not only technically skilled as a boy and as a young man, but also showed a maturity about humanity revealed by his ability to observe people and life as it is lived. Every drawing from his hand was an evidence not only of what was to come, but also of a rare, superb empathy with his subjects.
This Louisiana on Paper exhibition of 28 of Picasso’s earliest works took its point of departure in the collections of the Picasso Museum in Barcelona.
C.L. Davids Fond og Samling supported the exhibition.