Jacqueline

Thirty years after her death, Museu Picasso pays tribute to Jacqueline Picasso (Jacqueline Roque before her marriage to the artist in 1961). Pablo Picasso's model and muse takes here centre stage: the artworks, photographs and documents in the exhibition give us a glimpse of her activity as patroness and a photographer.

The selection of photographs on display reveals Jacqueline's facet as a privileged documentarist of the artist's private life and his surroundings. With a kind and knowing gaze she captured unique views of Picasso with his Barcelona friends, closely linked to the creation of Museu Picasso in the city: Jaume Sabartés, Gaspar art dealers and publisher Gustau Gili, among others. The show also includes a selection of works by Picasso personally donated by Jacqueline to the museum that are a token of her generosity and reveal the affection she felt for the institution: twenty-two ceramic pieces and the oil painting entitled Woman in a Bonnet, made by Picasso in 1901.