AO On Site – Picasso’s Paris in Philadelphia and New York: “Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through April 25, 2010, and at the Guggenheim “Paris and the avant-garde: Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection” through May 12, 2010
Saturday, April 10th, 2010
At PMA, “Head of a Woman” (1937-38). Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
AO visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, which are both showing survey exhibitions of the avant-garde in Paris in the early twentieth century. “Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris,” at PMA, is an exhaustive display of thirty years of Picasso, from 1905 to 1945, following him through the development of Cubism and artist communities in Paris. The Guggenheim’s show is smaller and less concentrated on Picasso; it includes thirty works by Picasso, Léger, Chagall, Braque, and more, where the PMA’s 200-strong exhibition includes works by Picasso collaborators and contemporaries as they interact with his own.
At the Guggenheim, Pablo Picasso, “Mandolin and Guitar (Mandoline et guitare)” (1924). Oil with sand on canvas Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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