The famous visual artist died on April 8, 1973. Art museums remember Picasso and offer a huge number of things to see.
The anti-war work, more than seven meters wide, can be seen at the Reina Sofía museum in Madrid. It is one of many major art museums that have works by Pablo Picasso in their collections.
The visual artist said when he was alive: \”Give me a museum and I will fill it.\”
This year, an extraordinary amount of Pablo Picasso’s art is displayed spectacularly in museums around the world.
The artist was born in 1881 in Spain and died in France exactly half a century ago, on April 8, 1973.
Picasso was a genius and an icon
A great name, legend, genius and icon of modern fine art. Versatile and creative.
Pablo Picasso is called and characterized by these words.
His vast output includes paintings, illustrations, graphics, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, as well as sets and costumes.
Many works could be created in a day. There are tens of thousands of them in total. When you include every sketch, drawing and outline made on a napkin, the total number is more than 100,000.
Smith served as the artistic director and innovator of the new exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Paris.
152 Picasso paintings, sculptures and collages are on display.
– I would hope that people would leave the exhibition with goosebumps.
The museum is one of the main organizers of the jubilee year.
– I think it’s great that an artist who died 50 years ago still inspires us, says Paul Smith.
Picasso was married twice, in addition to having many muses and mistresses.
Picasso tyrannized women
The artist’s works are appreciated, but his personality is associated with repulsive traits.
Picasso has a reputation as an insatiable heroine, mistreater and self-centered tyrant. He used to put a woman on a pedestal or treat her like a doormat.
The artist’s behavior drove women to the brink of madness and even to suicide.
The Ministers of Culture of France and Spain told about the Picasso jubilee year at a press conference in Madrid last year. At that time, they emphasized that Picasso’s life’s work is meant to be brought to the fore without overlooking difficult subjects.
– We want to present Picasso as he was.
The Brooklyn Museum of Art is one of the largest art museums in the United States in New York. It promises that Picasso will be viewed \”through feminist lenses\” in the museum’s exhibition opening this summer.
Astronomical sums are paid for Picasso
Pablo Picasso’s works have been stolen, forged and tampered with.
They have been attacked.
In October last year, environmental activists plastered the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.
Pablo Picasso’s artworks are also highly sought after. Record sums are paid for them at auctions.
The oil painting *Women of Algiers* (Version \”O\”), painted in 1955, was paid 179.4 million dollars, or about 160 million euros, at an auction in New York in 2015.
It is the highest price ever paid for a Picasso painting.
The graphic from the AFP news agency shows how high the prices of his paintings have risen at auctions.
Some of the exhibitions of the Picasso year have already opened to the public and more will open throughout the year.
For example, the exhibition *Young Picasso in Paris* opens in New York’s Guggenheim Museum in May. Among other things, you can see this painting there:
In Finland, the Ateneum Art Museum’s Picasso exhibition is still the most popular exhibition of all time in terms of the total number of visitors.
At the turn of the year 2009–2010, it was seen by almost 315,000 visitors.
Pablo Picasso and Francoise Gilot.
Friends Picasso and Cocteau.