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In memory of Casagemas

BARCELONA – He was Picasso’s best friend in Paris. By committing suicide in a dramatic manner during a Parisian dinner party, this tortured and impotent artist (frustrated in his female relations) reached the status of a myth. Picasso was in Spain at the moment of the terrible act, but he left a memorable painting of his dead friend which can be seen in the first room of the musée Picasso, in Paris. What really was the story of artist Casagemas, who died so young (1880-1901)? This is the central question of this long-awaited retrospective. But we will only get a tentative answer as there are but few works of the Catalan artist, among them Maison de rendez-vous which belongs to the museum.
• Carles Casagemas, el artista debajo del mito at the Museo nacional d’arte de Cataluña, from 30 October 2014 to 22 February 2015.

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