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Media Release • 10 May 22

The Picasso Century

Pablo Picasso
Woman in an armchair (Femme dans un fauteuil) summer 1927
oil on canvas
130.0 × 97.0 cm
Musée national Picasso-Paris
Donated in lieu of tax, 1979 (MP99)
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency, 2022
Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris)/Adrien Didierjean
Pablo Picasso
Portrait of a woman (Portrait de femme) 1938
oil on canvas
98.0 × 77.5 cm
Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle
Gift of the artist, 1947 (AM 2729 P)
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency, 2022
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Georges Meguerditchian/Dist. RMN-GP
Pablo Picasso
Figures by the sea (Figures au bord de la mer) 12 January 1931
oil on canvas
130.0 × 195.0 cm
Musée national Picasso-Paris
Donated in lieu of tax, 1979 (MP131)
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency, 2022
Photo: © RMN - Grand Palais - Mathieu Rabeau
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency, 2022
Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris/Mathieu Rabeau
Pablo Picasso
Portrait of Olga in an armchair (Portrait d’Olga dans un fauteuil) spring 1918
oil on canvas
130.0 × 88.8 cm
Musée national Picasso-Paris
Donated in lieu of tax, 1979 (MP55)
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency, 2022
Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris/Mathieu Rabeau
Pablo Picasso
The studio at La Californie (L’Atelier de La Californie) 30 March 1956
oil on canvas
114.0 × 146.0 cm
Musée national Picasso-Paris
Donated in lieu of tax, 1979 (MP211)
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency, 2022
Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris/Mathieu Rabeau
Françoise Gilot
Sink and tomatoes (Evier et tomates) May 1951
oil on plywood
91.8 × 72.8 cm
Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle
Purchase, 1952 (AM 3228 P)
© Françoise Gilot
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Bertrand Prévost/Dist. RMN-GP
Pablo Picasso
The matador (Le Matador) 4 October 1970
oil on canvas
145.0 × 114.0 cm
Musée national Picasso-Paris
Donated in lieu of tax, 1979 (MP223​)
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency, 2022.
Photo © RMN - Grand Palais - Mathieu Rabeau
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency, 2022
Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris/Mathieu Rabeau
Georges Braque
Woman with a guitar (Femme à la guitare) autumn 1913
oil and charcoal on canvas
130.0 × 73.0 cm
Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle
Gift of M. Raoul La Roche, 1957 (AM 3487 P)
© Georges Braque/ADAGP. Copyright Agency, 2022
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Georges Meguerditchian/Dist. RMN-GP
Dora Maar
French 1907–77
Untitled (Hand-shell) (Sans titre [Main-coquillage]) c. 1934, printed 2004
gelatin silver print
printed by Daniel Valet
56.6 × 38.0 cm (image)
23.4 × 17.5 cm (sheet)
Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle
Acquisition, 2004 (TEX 2004-164 (25N1))
© Dora Maar/ADAGP. Copyright Agency, 2022
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Dist. RMN-GP
Pablo Picasso
The bay of Cannes (La Baie de Cannes) 19 April – 9 June 1958
oil on canvas
130.0 × 195.0 cm
Musée national Picasso-Paris
Donated in lieu of tax, 1979 (MP212)
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency, 2022
Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris)/Mathieu Rabeau

© The Estate of Dorothea Tanning/ADAGP. Copyright Agency, 2022
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM/Dist. RMN-GP
Salvador Dalí
Invisible sleeping woman, horse, lion (Dormeuse, cheval, lion invisibles) 1930
oil on canvas
50.2 × 65.2 cm
Centre Pompidou, Paris,Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle
Gift of the Association Bourdon, 1993 (AM 1993-26)
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dali/VEGAP. Copyright
Agency, 2022.
Photo: © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Philippe Migeat/Dist. RMN-GP
© Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dali/VEGAP. Copyright Agency, 2022
Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Philippe Migeat/Dist. RMN-GP