Whom You Know: Picasso and Spanish Modernity Florence, Palazzo Strozzi 20 September 2014–25 January 2015 Our Coverage Sponsored by Patsy's Italian Restaurant on West 56th Street of Manhattan Est. 1944

Monday, August 4, 2014

Picasso and Spanish Modernity Florence, Palazzo Strozzi 20 September 2014–25 January 2015 Our Coverage Sponsored by Patsy's Italian Restaurant on West 56th Street of Manhattan Est. 1944

Right: Pablo Picasso (Malaga 1881–Mougins 1973) Portrait of Dora Maar 27 March 1939. Collection from Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, DE01840

Pablo Picasso (Malaga 1881–Mougins 1973) Seated Woman Resting on Elbows 8 January 1939. Collection from Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, DE01162

Center: Pablo Picasso (Malaga 1881–Mougins 1973) Horse Head. Sketch for Guernica 2 May 1937. Collection from Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Legat Picasso, 1981, DE00119

Left: Salvador Dalí (Figueras 1904–89) Harlequin 1927 [1926]. Collection from Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, AS07488

Joan Miró (Barcelona 1893–Palma de Mallorca 1983) Siurana, the Path 1917, oil on canvas, 60,6 x 73,3 cm. Collection from Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, AD01139

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Starting 20 September Palazzo Strozzi in Florence will be hosting a major new event devoted to one of 20th century painting's greatest masters, Pablo Picasso. An extraordinary exhibition of works from the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid

Picasso and Spanish Modernity has put together a broad selection of works by the great master, from the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, in an attempt to stimulate a reflection on his influence on every aspect of art in the 20th century, and on his interaction with such leading Spanish artists as Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Juan Gris, María Blanchard and Julio González.

The exhibition comprises some ninety works by Picasso and other artists, ranging from painting to sculpture, drawing, engraving and even a film by José Val del Omar, thanks to the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi's synergistic cooperation with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. The works of art on display include such celebrated masterpieces as Woman's Head (1910), Portrait of Dora Maar (1939) and The Painter and the Model (1963) by Picasso, Siurana, the Path (1917) and Figure and Bird in the Night (1945) by Miró and Dalí's Arlequin (1927), along with Picasso's drawings, engravings and preparatory paintings for his huge masterpiece Guernica (1937), none of which have been displayed outside Spain in such vast numbers before now.

Curated by Eugenio Carmona (Professor of Art History at Malaga University, a member of the Patronatos del Museos Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and of the Comisión Andaluza de Museos), the exhibition covers the years 1910 to 1963, exploring the relationship between Art and Culture and establishing the elements that comprised that plastic transformation – and also subsequent plastic transformations – of artistic awareness in Spain's cultural diversity through shared styles or common, coinciding and interacting aesthetic denominators and plastic interests.

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