- Postponed due to the coronavirus, the Picasso expo , bathers and bathers will be visible in Lyon from July 15.
- The opportunity to discover a theme rarely discussed but extremely rich in the painter's career.
An exhibition that is very timely in these summer times when the mercury is definitely rising. On July 15, the Lyon Museum of Fine Arts will host a unique exhibition, which should have been presented on March 18 but which was postponed due to the period of confinement. The theme: " Picasso, bathers and bathers ".
Visitors, who wander from room to room, will be able to discover rare photos of the painter at the beach. Understand that the places frequented during the summers have deeply influenced his work throughout his career. They will see how works by artists from the past like Cézanne or Renoir, with whom Picasso wanted to compete, gave birth to legendary paintings. They will have fun spotting the details, the winks in each canvas presented. They will discover the whole process of creating a table, starting with the first preparatory sketches in pencil.
A great journey from 1908 to the 60s
“It's an exhibition that invites you on a great trip. It begins in 1908 at a time when Picasso is in the midst of Cubist research and ends in the 1960s when the theme begins to run out of steam, "explains Sylvie Ramond, the director of the establishment. Originally: the desire to collect three Picasso paintings. “We already had Women sitting on the beach in our collections , which had been bequeathed to us by Jacqueline Delubac. We wanted to bring together the two works that complete the triptych, she continues. From there, we thought it would be interesting to work on the theme of bathers and see if it could link all of Picasso's work ”.
150 paintings, sculptures, drawings by the painter were thus brought together to constitute this exhibition with a unique theme. "At the beginning, when I announced this project, I was told" Another Picasso exhibition ", confesses Sylvie Ramond with a smile. But in fact, she takes a very original and original look at her career. She offers to watch another Picasso ”. A Picasso far removed from the Guernica period, for example.
From masters to influenced artists
“We absolutely wanted the exhibition to be punctuated by counterpoints. There are those who influenced Picasso but there is a focus on two artists: Francis Bacon, who will discover Picasso in 1927 and thereby his vocation as an artist, and the sculptor Henry Moore, who in turn inspired by Picasso bathers, ”adds Sylvie Ramond. A nod also to Nanas by Niki Saint Phalle. "Without wanting to multiply the references, we wanted to show how this theme has been received by today's artists," concludes the director of the museum. The exhibition will be visible until January 3, 2021.
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