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Tate Modern Exhibition

The EY Exhibition Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy

8 March – 9 September 2018
Pablo Picasso Le Rêve (The Dream) 1932, Collection particulière (Steve Cohen) © DACS 2018

Pablo Picasso The Dream (Le Rêve) 1932, Private Collection © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2018

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A month-by-month journey through Picasso’s ‘year of wonders’

1932 was an intensely creative period in the life of the 20th century’s most influential artist.

This is the first ever solo Pablo Picasso exhibition at Tate Modern. It will bring you face-to-face with more than 100 paintings, sculptures and drawings, mixed with family photographs and rare glimpses into his personal life.

The myths around Picasso are stripped away to reveal the man and the artist in his full complexity and richness. You will see him as never before.

‘I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.’ Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso Nude in a Black Armchair (Nu au fauteuil noir) 1932 Private Collection, USA. Photo Courtesy of Richard Gray Gallery © Succession Picasso/DACS 2018

Pablo Picasso Nude in a Black Armchair (Nu au fauteuil noir) 1932 Private Collection, USA. Photo Courtesy of Richard Gray Gallery © Succession Picasso/DACS 2018

Pablo Picasso Nude Woman in a Red Armchair (Femme nue dans un fauteuil rouge) 1932 Tate © Succession Picasso/DACS 2018

Pablo Picasso Nude Woman in a Red Armchair (Femme nue dans un fauteuil rouge) 1932 Tate © Succession Picasso/DACS 2018

Pablo Picasso Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (Femme nue, fueilles at buste) 1932 Private Collection © Succession PicassoDACS 2018

Pablo Picasso Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (Femme nue, feuille et buste) 1932 Private Collection © Succession Picasso/DACS 2018

Pablo Picasso The Mirror (Le Mirroir) Private Collection 1932 © Succession PicassoDACS, London 2018

Pablo Picasso The Mirror (Le Miroir) Private Collection 1932 © Succession PicassoDACS, London 2018

Picasso - rue de la Boétie, 1933. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton ©The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s


Picasso – rue de la Boétie, 1933. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton ©The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s

Curated by Achim Borchardt-Hume, Director of Exhibitions and Nancy Ireson, Curator, International Art with Laura Bruni and Juliette Rizzi, Assistant Curators, Tate Modern.

The exhibition is organised by Tate Modern in collaboration with Musée national Picasso-Paris where it was curated by Laurence Madeline with Virginie Perdrisot-Cassan, Curator of Sculpture and Ceramics.

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Listen as curators Achim Borchardt-Hume and Nancy Ireson guide you through Picasso’s ‘year of wonders’, joined by paintings conservator Annette King and cultural historian Andrew Hussey. Pick up from the exhibition entrance.

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Dates

8 March – 9 September 2018

Extended opening hours: 6–9 September until 22.00

Members early morning viewings every weekend from 08.00

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The artist as you’ve never seen him before

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One remarkable year in the artist’s extraordinary life

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Likely to be London’s top exhibition of 2018

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Horror and beauty collide in Pablo's fastest, wildest year

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Astounding

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Picasso blindsides with his inventiveness

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