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Picasso, a modern artist among others

FLORENCE – He was certainly an engine in the avant-garde. But, as we can see in the aforementioned Miró exhibition, Picasso was not the only Spanish artist to serve that cause. His universal fame clouded out a number of his contemporaries who deserved better than that, such as sculptor Julio González or his exact contemporary artist Maria Blanchard. She was born in 1881 but died much before Picasso, in 1932, and also spent a good part of her career in Paris. The Palazzo Strozzi tries to put the Spanish talents into perspective.
• Picasso e la modernità spagnola at Palazzo Strozzi, from 25 September 2014 to 20 January 2015.

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