When Picasso and Picabia were little known, the press often confused them by the similarity of their names. This anecdote was perhaps the harbinger of an ambiguous relationship between two apparently antagonistic painters in their way of understanding art. In the first stage of their career they exhibited in the same gallery (1904) but their trajectories crossed in few occasions during that stage. This exhibition, however, reveals for the first time the numerous points in common of their work and the crossed histories of these two great contemporary painters, as well as their relationship and attitude towards the same changing reality.
A journey through the history of art from 1910 to 1973
Picasso - Picabia. Painting in question is also a journey through the history of art that takes us through Cubism (which was originated around 1910), Dadaism (born in 1915 and of which Picabia was one of its main protagonists), the years 1925 -1928, when both artists share the taste for the "monstrous classicism", and ends with their last paintings, in which we see a Picasso who returns to the human figure until his death in 1973, and a Picabia, whose death came in 1953, which reduces the act of painting to subtle dotted monochromes.
More than 150 pieces and documents
The exhibition, organized by Fundación MAPFRE and the Musée Granet Aix-en-Provence with the support of the Musée National Picasso-Paris, is composed of more than 150 pieces (paintings and graphic arts) and archival documents (magazines, letters and photographs). An interesting point of the exhibition is that it is proposed to analyze the dialogue that is established between the works of Picasso and Picabia, showing the real links, but also imagined, among them.
Free admission every Monday except holidays from 2 pm to 8 pm.
How to get there
Metro: L2L3L4 Passeig de Gràcia
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