Picasso
Past exhibition

Picasso Sculptor. Matter and Body

09.29.2023 - 01.14.2024

Pablo Picasso (b. 1881; d. 1973) worked with sculpture from practically the beginning of his long career. For the Málaga-born artist, it was not a lesser medium but a form of expression on a par with painting, drawing, or engraving. In his practice, there were no major and minor arts but different languages and materials with which to transmit various aspects of his creation. The body, the ultimate objective of Picasso’s representation and his main instrument throughout his career, is the cornerstone of this exhibition, one of the events held to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his death.

This selection of sculptures ranges across the many styles used by Picasso to represent the forms of the human body, deconstructing it in order to recompose it. To this end, he made use indistinctly of all the means and objects within his reach, integrating them in a whole that had never before been seen. Sculptor Julio González saw Picasso’s sculptural gaze as lying at the genesis of his entire oeuvre: “I have often observed that there is no form that leaves him indifferent. He looks at everything, at every moment, because all forms represent something for him, and he sees everything as a sculptor […]. In my opinion, the mysterious side, the nerve center so to speak, of Picasso’s oeuvre is in the ‘sculpture’ that has made his work so talked about, that has won him so much glory.”


Galleries: second floor
Curators: Carmen Giménez, Lucía Agirre
Venues: Museo Picasso Málaga, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Exhibition organized by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in collaboration with the Museo Picasso Málaga

Pablo Picasso
Figure: Project for a Monument to Guillaume Apollinaire, 1928
Iron wire and plate
59.5 x 13 x 32 cm
Musée national Picasso-Paris, gift by Pablo Picasso, 1979,
Inv. Nr.: MP265
Photo: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris)/ Adrien Didierjean
© Succesion Pablo Picasso

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The Exhibition

picasso la dama oferente scaled

Pablo Picasso
Woman with Vase, Boisgeloup, summer 1933
Bronze, cast in 1972 or 1973
220 × 122 × 110 cm
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Git of Pablo Picasso
DE00051
© Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2023

picasso figura proyecto guillaume apollinaire scaled

Pablo Picasso
Figure: Project for a Monument to Guillaume Apollinaire, Paris, fall 1928
Iron wire and sheet metal
59.5 × 13 × 32 cm
Musée national Picasso-Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979
inv. nr: M P265
© Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2023
Photo: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Adrien Didierjean

picasso cabeza de mujer scaled

Pablo Picasso
Head of a Woman, April–July 1937 [original in plaster made in Boisgeloup in 1931]
Cement, unique edition
142 × 54.5 × 62.5 cm
Musée Picasso, Antibes
Gift of the artist, 1954
© Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2023

picasso cabeza con casco

Pablo Picasso
Head of a Warrior, Boisgeloup, January 1, 1933
Bronze with patina
121 x 69 x 32 cm
Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, Madrid. On temporary loan to the Museo Picasso Málaga
© Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2023

picasso mano derecha scaled

Pablo Picasso
Picasso’s Right Hand, Paris, 1937
Plaster
20.5 × 14.2 × 3.4 cm
Musée national Picasso-Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979
inv. nr.: MP321
© Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2023
Photo: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris)/
Adrien Didierjean

picasso los banistas scaled

Pablo Picasso
The Bathers, Cannes, summer 1956
Bronze
Six sculptures, various dimensions
Musée national Picasso-Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979, inv.nr.: MP352-357
© Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2023
Photo: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris)/Mathieu Rabeau

picasso cabeza de mujer dora scaled

Pablo Picasso
Head of a Woman (Dora Maar), 1941
Bronze
80 × 40 × 55 cm
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Sammlung Beyeler
© Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2023
Photo: Peter Schibli

picasso mujer encinta scaled

Pablo Picasso
Pregnant Woman (second state), Vallauris, 1959
Plaster and shellac
111 × 32.5 × 34.5 cm
Private collection
© Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2023
Photo: Robert Mackeever

picasso nina saltando a la cuerda

Pablo Picasso
Little Girl Jumping Rope, Vallauris, 1950
Bronze
153 × 62 × 65 cm
Private collection
© Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2023

picasso cabeza de mujer mougins scaled

Pablo Picasso
Head of a Woman, Mougins, late 1962
Cut, folded, and polychromed sheet metal and iron wire
32 × 24 × 16 cm
Musée national Picasso-Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979
© Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2023
Photo: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris)/Adrien Didierjean/Mathieu Rabeau

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