Malaga Picasso Museum reorders works in new exhibition
The Picasso Museum in Malaga, the southern Spanish city where the artist was born, will open a new exhibition on Tuesday which groups his works according to theme instead of by period. The show - which runs until March 2027 - brings together 141 Pablo Picasso works that the artist kept for himself, including 10 which were never before seen in Spain.
“We have not followed chronology strictly. We do begin with the very early work of Picasso and we end with the last work that he created but within that we often are combining works from different decades,” said the curator of the exhibition, Michael FitzGerald, a professor of art history at Trinity College in the United States. “It is a group of works, paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints that represents the entire production of Picasso I hope very accurately. and we particularly emphasized ceramics among them which is a SDUW RI 3LFDVVR·V ZRUN WKDW LV RIWHQ QRW shown and not perhaps taken as seriously as it should.”
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