Pablo Picasso lands in Avilés with a facet that perhaps may be more unknown to the majority public. Their ‘Eternal engravings’ sneak into the cupola of the Niemeyer Center with the desire to show everyone who wants it his life through technique until the next may 31.
Any plans for this afternoon?
Be one of the first to discover the wonderful engravings of Picasso in the recently opened exhibition “Picasso. Eternal Prints”.
From Wednesday to Sunday from 11:00 to 14:00 and from 16:00 to 19:00.
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‘Suite Vollard’, a masterpiece of 20th century engraving, shows one of the few complete series in the world on this work. Composed of a hundred works, the twelve engravings of ‘The Burial of the Count of Orgaz’, the nine that make up the series of ‘The Shadow Horsemen’ and four more: Portrait of Dora Maar (1939), Woman in the Armchair (1947), Girl’s Head. Françoise (1974) and Jaqueline black scarf red dress (1958). The exhibition is completed with several cards of the artist and bibliophile books.
The curator, Marisa Oropesa, recognizes the “complexity” of placing the engravings in the dome due to the layout of the space, although she assures that “If Picasso were alive, he would have loved to be in this wonderful Niemeyer”.
The Serie Suite Vollard (1930-1937), consists of 97 engravings by Picasso and three by Ambroise Vollard. This was a charge from Vollard himself as an exchange of works, in which Picasso would add to his personal collection plays from great artists like Pual Cézanne, Edgar Degas or Henri Matisse.
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz it is a series of thirteen engravings part of a collection that Picasso published as a last declaration of love for the Spanish pictorial tradition and with a poem / prologue by his friend Rafael Alberti. Finally you will find The Shadow Horsemen where he illustrates Geneviève Laporte’s book, made up of poems written between 1951 and 1953.
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