Picasso 1881-1973. Anthological Exhibition

An exhaustive exhibition organised the year that marks the centenary of Picasso's birth presents an overview of the artist's different periods and the hidden Spanish roots he never surrendered.

This is the first great Picasso exhibition to be held in Spain. During the Second Spanish Republic, the Catalan art group Amics de l'Art Nou or Friends of the New Art (ADLAN) had presented an ambitious project that would finally be reduced to a display of twenty-five works that opened in Barcelona early in 1936, before travelling to Bilbao and Madrid.

To mark the centenary of Picasso's birth, the museum has done its utmost to offer Catalonia an exhibition worthy of such an event. The exhibition catalogue presents the artist's Spanish heritage, which he never renounced, and the works on display provide a glimpse of his various periods. Given the impossibility of bringing together an exhaustive selection of works in the different techniques employed by Picasso  (painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, engraving, writing and set designs), the show focuses on his paintings with examples from the distinct periods in his career, innovative and revolutionary, always consistent with his essential and historical circumstances.