/ world today news/ The Tate Modern gallery in London will dedicate a major exhibition to a single “key” year in the fruitful career of Pablo Picasso, reports Artprice.
Perhaps surprisingly, Picasso 1932: Love, Glory, Tragedy (March 8-September 9, 2018) will be the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work in a London gallery. With important works on loan from museums and private collections, it will also be “one of the most significant exhibitions ever organized at the gallery,” according to the press release.
Sponsored by accounting firm Ernst & Young and organized in conjunction with the Picasso Museum in Paris, where the exhibition will be from October 10, 2017 (until February 11, 2018), “Picasso 1932” will bring together more than 100 paintings, sculptures and works on paper.
Arranged chronologically month by month, they mark an intensely productive and tumultuous period in Picasso’s art and life. Torn between an unhappy marriage to the dancer Olga Khokhlova and a passionate affair with the young Marie-Thérèse Walter, the 50-year-old artist works in a number of different styles. The Tate exhibition will feature his realistic portraits of Olga and their son Paulo, as well as luscious sculptures inspired by his secret lover.
Among the highlights will be two colorful, sensual paintings depicting Marie-Thérèse: “Girl in Front of a Mirror,” which rarely leaves the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and “The Dream,” from the private collection of hedge fund manager and billionaire Steven Cohen. The Dream, which has never been shown in the UK before, underwent restoration after the previous owner sold it – casino tycoon Steve Wynn accidentally elbowing the canvas in 2006.
The Dream was first exhibited in 1932 in a retrospective Picasso exhibition at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris, alongside the publication of the first volume of the artist’s catalog raisonné by Christian Zervos.
The Tate exhibition uses the artist’s description of his works as a kind of diary, says co-curator Achim Borhart-Hume, director of exhibitions at Tate Modern. “Showing stellar loans from public and private collections in the order in which they were painted, this exhibition will allow a new generation to discover Picasso’s explosive energy, while surprising those who think they already know the artist.”
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