Picasso and The Museum.
Círculo de Bellas Artes. Madrid.
February - May 2018

This exhibition addresses the relationship between Pablo Picasso (Málaga, 1881 – Mougins, 1973) and the museum as a source of inspiration for his work. The painter’s frequent visits to institutions such as the Prado, the Louvre, the Ingres Museum in Montauban or the Trocadero in Paris familiarised him with a number of artists whose work exerted a powerful influence on him throughout his life. In these museums, he became acquainted with African and early Iberian art, and encountered great masters like El Greco, Velázquez, Goya, Rembrandt, Delacroix, Ingres, Manet and Degas, among others. He incorporated this iconography into his own creative universe, as the over 200 works in this exhibit clearly show.
This exhibition is curated by Javier Molins