Cleveland Museum of Art. Docent-Led Tour of Special Picasso Exhibit
When
10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Where
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland OH 44106
Who can attend
Limited Capacity: 2 spots available
Price
About The Exhibition: Pablo Picasso’s prolonged engagement with paper is the subject of the groundbreaking exhibition Picasso and Paper, organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in partnership with the Musée national Picasso-Paris.
Number of works on exhibit: 300
Time span: Picasso's entire career
Featured: Cut-and-pasted papers, sculptures from pieces of torn and burnt paper, manipulated photographs, drawings in virtually all available media, and prints in an array of techniques.
Highlights: Femmes à leur toilette (1937–38), an extraordinarily large collage of cut-and-pasted papers, exhibited for the first time in America; Outstanding Cubist papiers collés; Artist’s sketchbooks; Constructed paper guitars from the Cubist and Surrealist periods; Many works related to his major paintings and sculptures.
Picasso and Paper is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue published by the Royal Academy of Arts. It features essays by distinguished Picasso scholars and leading authorities in various aspects of technical art history, including William H. Robinson, formerly of the Cleveland Museum of Art; Ann Dumas of the Royal Academy of Arts; Emilia Philippot of the Musée national Picasso-Paris; and Claustre Rafart Planas of the Museu Picasso, Barcelona.
Specific aspects of Picasso’s engagement with paper are addressed by Christopher Lloyd, an expert on Picasso’s drawings; Stephen Coppel, curator of prints and drawings at the British Museum; Violette Andres, photography curator at the Musée national Picasso-Paris; Johan Popelard, Head of the Conservation and Collections Department at the Musée national Picasso-Paris; and Emmanuelle Hincelin, a paper conservator with scientific expertise in the types of paper Picasso used at key moments in his career.