Exhibitions
Picasso, the foreigner
Already 25,000 visitors have been able to discover "Picasso abroad" at the Museum of the History of Immigration, at the Palais de la Porte Dorée, sometimes guided by the passionate verve of its curator, Annie Cohen-Solal, historian and biographer (
Un foreigner named Picasso
in 2021, after
Leo Castelli and his family
in 2009,
Mark Rothko
in 2013).
Why was Picasso
"flagged as an anarchist"
at the Prefecture of Police on June 18, 1901, a fortnight before his first Parisian exhibition?
This starting point gave birth to a fascinating book and to this exhibition produced in collaboration with the Picasso Museum in Paris, a major lender (
The Reading of the Letter
, 1921).
Picasso rarely spoke about his relationship with France, even though it runs through his personal and professional life.
The Andalusian, who forged himself in Catalonia, transformed his immigrant status into an artistic driving force, his art into a shield (
Empreinte (au sucre) de la main de Picasso
, early June 1936).
His work says this...
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