Art Of The Day Weekly
#545 - from 18 March 2019 to 24 March 2019
Pablo Picasso, La Suppliante, 18 December 1937, gouache on wood, Musée national Picasso-Paris © RMN-Grand Palais / Mathieu Rabeau © Succession Picasso 2019*
Picasso, a look at exile
TOULOUSE – He never set foot back in Spain after 1934. His request for French naturalization was refused in 1940, so Picasso remained a Spaniard all his life. Though he never experienced the hardship of the refugees locked up in the camps of Gurs or Argelès, and instead lived comfortably from his art, Picasso always sympathized with the situation of his compatriots in exile (among them people from his own family, like his nephews Vilató). The exhibition shows how the theme was permanently in his work, and his relationship to his native country (with important Meninas lent by Barcelona). But it also establishes a link with other Spanish artists who were confronted with la Retirada, and presents an impressive quantity of documents.
• Picasso et l’exil, at the Abattoirs, from 15 March to 25 August 2019.