The Picasso Museum in Antibes, in southeastern France, launched a 50th anniversary celebration of the painter’s death on April 8, 1973, on Saturday. He opened an exhibition dedicated to the last years of his life.
The Antibes exhibition “Picasso 1969-1972”, established with the help of the Picasso National Museum in Paris, runs until July 2 with 37 canvases and four works on paper executed by the artist in Mogins, not far from Antibes, where he lived during those years. Where he breathed his last since 1961.
“Bust of a Man with a Hat”, “Flute Player and Nude Woman”, “Torero”… Large-format works are on loan from the Picasso Museums in Paris and Malaga, private galleries and the artist’s family.
They bear witness to a period “in which, in the twilight heralded by his detractors, Picasso reexamined his entire life as an artist and as a man in a creative flourish,” the exhibition’s curator Jean-Louis Andrell notes in the catalogue. , who titled the exhibition “The End of the Beginning”.
New horizons
“When Picasso last exhibited in Avignon in 1970 and 1973, some critics found that he had lost his potential and that it was the beginning of the end. I wanted to change the formula to say that. Instead, it was a moment that opened new horizons for painting, which (Jean-Michel) Enchanted painters like Basquiat,” said AFP Mr. Andrél noted, ‘He is also the director of the Picasso Museum in Antibes.
Citing the work “Voyage en Picasso” by Hélène Parmelin, in 1973 he refers to the Spanish artist’s belief that “perhaps he was never as ‘painterly’ as in past paintings”. He never stopped creating until his last work session on November 12, 1972, a few weeks before his death at the age of 91.
At Chateau Grimaldi, facing the sea, the Picasso Museum in Antibes permanently houses 23 of Picasso’s paintings and 44 paintings, which he was able to use in part of the museum after a two-month stay in 1946. A workshop.
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The collection has been enriched over the years and by donations, especially pottery made in the neighboring town of Vallaris in the post-war years.
From Antibes, the painter’s birthplace, to Malaga, via Paris, the fiftieth anniversary of his death promises many highlights to rediscover his work. York in June.
This article was published automatically. Sources: ats / afp
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