Pablo Picasso<br/>
<em>Portrait of a woman</em> (<em>Portrait de femme</em>) 1938<br/>
oil on canvas<br/>
98.0 × 77.5 cm<br/>
Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle<br/>
Gift of the artist, 1947 (AM 2729 P)<br/>
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency, 2022<br/>
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Georges Meguerditchian/Dist. RMN-GP

The Picasso Century

NGV International

10 Jun – 9 Oct 22

The world-premiere Melbourne Winter Masterpieces® 2022 exhibition, The Picasso Century, charts the extraordinary career of Pablo Picasso in dialogue with the many artists, poets and intellectuals with whom he intercepted and interacted throughout the 20th century, including Georges Braque, Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, Françoise Gilot, Valentine Hugo, Marie Laurencin, Dora Maar, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Guillaume Apollinaire, Dorothea Tanning and Gertrude Stein.

Exclusively developed for the NGV by the Centre Pompidou and the Musée national Picasso-Paris, the exhibition features over 80 works by Picasso alongside over 100 works by more than 50 of his contemporaries, drawn from premier French national collections, as well as the NGV Collection. Audiences will also have the opportunity to discover a rich selection of works by artists rarely exhibited in Australia, including Natalia Goncharova, Julio González, Wifredo Lam, Suzanne Valadon and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva.

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Exhibition catalogue

The Picasso Century draws on the renowned collections of the Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle (MNAM-CCI), Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Musée national Picasso-Paris. It provides a nuanced exploration of Pablo Picasso’s life, career and many artistic exchanges, and of the complex cast of characters that influenced his development over more than seventy years.

With a lead essay by Didier Ottinger (Deputy Director, MNAM-CCI), biographical texts, entries on artworks, a detailed chronology and more than 280 images, The Picasso Century offers a significant and often thrilling insight into one of the twentieth century’s most iconic artists and the rich artistic milieu in which he worked.


Didier Ottinger, assisted by Anna Hiddleston-Galloni, with contributors

Publisher: National Gallery of Victoria, Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle (MNAM-CCI), Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Musée national Picasso-Paris
235 x 269 mm, portrait
464 pages, quarter-bound hardback
ISBN: 9781925432947
Category: International art
RRP: $79.95 AUD
Publication date: June 2022

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