From Pablo to Jacqueline. Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Graphic Work 1954-1971

Wed, 17/10/1990 - 12:00 - Sun, 27/01/1991 - 12:00

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A selection of works dedicated by Picasso to his last wife, Jacqueline, with whom he lived during the last twenty years of his life. These pieces span the period 1954 to 1971, two years before the artist's death, and provide a broad survey of his technical and stylistic resources in the service of Jacqueline's portrait.

The works in this exhibition were dedicated by Picasso to Jacqueline, his second wife with whom he spent his last twenty years. Produced during a prolific period of work between 1954 and 1971, barely two years before his death, the works were made at three of the couple's residences: La Californie, their villa in Cannes; Vauvenargues Castle; and Notre-Dame-de-Vie mansion in Mougins, where Picasso passed away in 1973 and where Jacqueline herself died thirteen years later, on 15 October 1986.

The show, that revolves around the figure of Jacqueline, is an opportunity to discover the wide range of stylistic and technical resources employed by Picasso in works such as the famous portrait of Jacqueline with a long slender neck made in 1954, or the paintings in which the model metamorphoses and appears in different series.

(Delacroix's Les femmes d'Argel and Velázquez's Las Meninas inspired many of these portraits.) Another such series is The Artist and His Model, which would become one of Picasso's obsessions from 1963 onwards.

Curated:

Maria Teresa Ocaña