Billed as a month-by-month journey through Picasso’s “year of wonders,” this first ever solo Pablo Picasso exhibition at Tate Modern, PICASSO 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy, is on view in The Eyal Ofer Galleries, Bankside, London, UK, until September 9, 2018.
It will bring you face-to-face with more than 100 paintings, sculptures and drawings, mixed with family photographs and rare glimpses into his Picasso’s personal life.
The Dream (Le Rêve), by Pablo Picasso, 1932, oil on canvas, 51⅛ x 38¼ inches, Private Collection
Three of his extraordinary paintings featuring his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter are shown together for the first time since they were created over a period of just five days in March 1932.
The myths around Picasso will be stripped away to reveal the man and the artist in his full complexity and richness. You will see him as never before.
Nude in a Black Armchair (Nu au fauteuil noir), by Pablo Picasso, 1932, oil on canvas, 63¾ x 51⅛ inches, Private Collection
Curated by Achim Borchardt-Hume, Director of Exhibitions with Nancy Ireson, Curator, International Art, Laura Bruni and Juliette Rizzi, Assistant Curators, Tate Modern.
The exhibition is organized by Tate Modern in collaboration with Musée national Picasso-Paris.
For more details visit the exhibition page here.
Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur), by Pablo Picasso, 1932, oil on canvas, 63¾ x 51⅛ inches, Private Collection
Exhibition Catalogue
An exhibition catalogue for PICASSO 1932 by Achim Borchardt-Hume and Nancy Ireson is available, in hardback or paperback.
“I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.” – Pablo Picasso
Even by his own extraordinary standards, 1932 was Pablo Picasso’s ‘year of wonders’. His paintings reached a new level of sensuality, while the dazzling opening of his first-ever retrospective exhibition cemented his status as the most famous artist in the world. All of this against a background of economic depression and a tidal wave of rising nationalisms.
Published to accompany a landmark exhibition at Tate Modern this lavishly illustrated publication makes use of fresh research to lay bare the contradictions of the artist’s existence at this pivotal moment. Artworks, texts and archive photographs together reveal a life divided between public grandeur and the solitude of the studio, bourgeois family life and secret love affair, painting and sculpture, pleasure and darkness. Common myths are stripped away to disclose the man and the artist in his full complexity, showing the creative abundance with which he gave expression to a year of love, fame and tragedy.
Achim Borchardt-Hume is Director of Exhibitions and Programmes, Tate Modern.
Nancy Ireson is Curator, International Art, Tate Modern.
Visit this link for further details or to obtain a copy in either hard or paper.
About Tate Modern
When Tate first opened its doors to the public in 1897 it had just one site, displaying a small collection of British artworks. Today we have four major sites and the national collection of British art from 1500 to the present day and international modern and contemporary art, which includes nearly 70,000 artworks.
In December 1992 the Tate Trustees announced their intention to create a separate gallery for international modern and contemporary art in London.
The former Bankside Power Station was selected as the new gallery site in 1994. The following year, Swiss architects Herzog & De Meuron were appointed to convert the building into a gallery. That their proposal retained much of the original character of the building was a key factor in this decision.
Since it opened in May 2000, more than 40 million people have visited Tate Modern. It is one of the UK’s top three tourist attractions and generates an estimated £100 million in economic benefits to London annually.
In 2009 Tate embarked on a major project to develop Tate Modern. Working again with Herzog & de Meuron, the transformed Tate Modern makes use of the power station’s spectacular redundant oil tanks, increasing gallery space and providing much improved visitor facilities. Here’s a short video.
