'Devouring Paris. Picasso 1900-1907' Picasso Museum of Barcelona

Date 1st July - 16th October 2011

Curator Marilyn McCully

Organisation and production Van Gogh Museum of Amsterdam y Museu Picasso de Barcelona

Museography  Av62Arquitectos 

Picasso’s artistic evolution from his arrival in 1900 to Paris, where he discovered a thriving international art community, to 1907, when he assumed the role of leading the vanguard in the French capital. His first direct contact with the works of the artists who were at the forefront of Paris’ artistic scene was a revelation for the painter. His reaction was immediate, as was reflected in both his discovery of new painting and graphic techniques and his adoption of new subject matter based on his own experiences of life and modern art. This exhibition will bring together works by Picasso made in different media and works by artists such as Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Rodin, Steinlen, Gauguin and, in particular, Van Gogh, among others, whose work was at the height of its power in this period in Paris, and it aims not to compare them with each other but to give an idea of the visual stimulus that Parisian life and art represented for Picasso during the first decade of the 20th century

*Text extract from the website from Picasso's Museum of Barcelona