The exhibition traces Picasso’s artistic development from his arrival in Paris in 1900, where he discovered a thriving international art community, to 1907, when he had grown into a leading figure of the Parisian avant-garde. One of the most important aspects of the exhibition is that it shows the habitual traits in Picasso’s work. The artist was never an imitator, but he eagerly absorbed the discoveries and ideas of his contemporaries and the history of art to construct his own personal style. The show brings together some 60 works by Picasso in different media, and 20 more by artists such as Cézanne, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Rodin, Steinlen and Gauguin in order to give an idea of the visual stimulus that Parisian life and art represented for Picasso during the first decade of the 20th century. The exhibition also features photographs and other documents about the Paris of the time.
Devorar París. Picasso, 1900-1907
