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Late Picasso, The Prequel

February 18, 2010 by Marion Maneker

Carol Vogel’s New York Times column announces another exhibition of Picasso’s work organized by John Richardson and his grandson Bernard Ruiz-Picasso. The late work show at Gagosian was so successful, drawing 100,000 visitors, they’ve decided to back up an era and offer a prequel:

The show, “Pablo Picasso: The Mediterranean Years (1945-1961),” will run June 4 through Aug. 28 at the gallery’s Britannia Street space, […] For this new show Mr. Richardson, a Gagosian adviser, and Mr. Ruiz-Picasso are moving back in time. “During World War II his paintings were very funereal and dreary, as though they were contained within gray walls,” Mr. Richardson said in a telephone interview. “But when he suddenly goes to the south of France, to the Cote d’Azur, it becomes a protean period of incredible virtuosity, where he revolutionizes sculptures, revolutionizes engraving techniques, revolutionizes ceramics and comes up with paintings that pit him against the great masters of the past.” […] The show, which will feature about 100 works, will be more varied than the first exhibition. Besides paintings, drawings and prints, it will include ceramics and sculptures of all kinds: bronze, wood, those that incorporate found objects and some cut from metal. Loans are coming primarily from family members like Mr. Ruiz-Picasso, but there will be a few museum loans too.

Inside Art: The Torrent That Flowed Through Picasso in the Final Years (New York Times)

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