Picasso Exhibition

A major Pablo Picasso exhibition, the first of its kind for 20 years, is to open at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) this autumn.

20:44 13 April 2016

Picasso Portraits will display more than 75 works from all phases of the Spanish painter’s career, which NPG’s director Dr Nicholas Cullinan said demonstrate Picasso’s “extraordinary range”.

 

The exhibition, which opens on 6 October, will feature both well-known masterpieces as well as works never seen in the UK, including a cubist portrait from 1910, which is on loan from the Art Institute of Chicago. 

Dr Cullinan said: "The exhibition gathers together major loans from public and private collections that demonstrate the breadth of Picasso's oeuvre and the extraordinary range of styles he employed across all media and from all periods of his career."

 

Speaking at Monday’s launch event at the NPG, Bernardo Laniado-Romero, the Museu Picasso’s director, said: "It will be an exhibition full of surprises for the public at large. One of the pleasures is to be able to be able present a number of works that are not well known."

 

The exhibition will run in London until February before it moves to Spain’s Museu Picasso in Barcelona.