Lola Ruiz Picasso

The exhibition dedicated to Lola is a tribute to Lola Ruiz Picasso and her zeal in preserving the work of her brother, while at the same time demonstrating the love they shared throughout their lives. Malén Gual, conservator of the Museu Picasso until June 2020, is the curator of the proposal.

Picasso was always very close to his sister Dolores (Lola) Ruiz Picasso, especially after the death of little Conchita (1887-1895). Lola was one of the favourite models of the young and adolescent Picasso, his first portraits in A Coruña dating back to the year 1894, and remaining in the iconography of the artist until 1900, except for the periods in which the artist moved away from his family to study in Madrid or to spend convalescence in Malaga. When the Blue Period began in 1901, Lola lost her place among the artist's symbolist iconography.

On settling down in Paris in 1904, Picasso kept up ties with his family, who always remained in Barcelona, and visited them on his successive trips to the city in 1906, 1909, 1910, 1913, 1917, 1926, 1933 and 1934. From a distance they maintained an epistolary relationship.