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Modernism in Dialogue with Contemporary Art from the Sammlung Goetz, Part 2

August 6, 2021–January 16, 2022
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
www.pinakothek-der-moderne.de

This exhibition, which includes more than two hundred works, presents works from the Sammlung Goetz in the Pinakothek der Moderne in order to explore the diverse relationships between classical modernism and contemporary art, examining how avant-garde artists paved the way for a more liberal treatment of color, line, and perspective, and outlined groundbreaking ideas for a new social community. Work by Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, and Tatiana Trouvé is included.

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Face à Arcimboldo

May 29–November 22, 2021
Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
www.centrepompidou-metz.fr

This exhibition, whose title translates to Arcimboldo Face to Face, invites visitors to explore the timeless vocabulary of the sixteenth-century painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo (c. 1527–1593). The show demonstrates how his work has influenced art history for more than four centuries through the work of 130 artists, including work by Francis Bacon, Glenn Brown, Alex Israel, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, and Ed Ruscha.

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Riffs and Relations
African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition

February 29, 2020–January 3, 2021
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
www.phillipscollection.org

This exhibition presents works by African American artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries alongside works by European artists from the early twentieth century. The show aims to examine cross-cultural conversations and presents the divergent works that reflect these complex dialogues. Work by Ellen Gallagher, Titus Kaphar, and Pablo Picasso is included.

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Stilles Sehen
Bilder der Ruhe

February 12–November 15, 2020
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
www.fondationbeyeler.ch

This exhibition, whose title translates to Silent Vision: Images of Calm and Quiet, features works of modern and contemporary art that deal with the subject of tranquility. Each room is dedicated to a specific aspect of calmness, inviting visitors to see and contemplate, as it were, stillness. Work by Alberto Giacometti, Roy Lichtenstein, Pablo Picasso, Gerhard Richter, Richard Serra, and Andy Warhol is included.

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Crystals in Art
Ancient to Today

October 12, 2019–January 6, 2020
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
crystalbridges.org

Crystals in Art explores the connections between crystals and art throughout the world, spanning history and geography. The exhibition includes a selection of works and specimens from ancient Egypt up to the present day and addresses broader recurring themes in the history of crystals such as science and religion, art and medicine, aesthetic beauty and transformation, and more. Work by Chris Burden, Pablo Picasso, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol is included.

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Ombres
De la Renaissance à nos jours

June 28–October 27, 2019
Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland
www.fondation-hermitage.ch

The Fondation de l’Hermitage is exploring the use of the shadow in Western iconography. The exhibition features an entirely new selection of nearly 140 artworks, representing a diverse range of artistic forms, from painting to installation, sculpture, prints, drawings, cutouts, photography, and video. Work by Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol is included.

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Picasso and Antiquity
Line and Clay

June 20–October 20, 2019
Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
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Picasso and Antiquity: Line and Clay includes rare drawings, engravings, and pottery by Pablo Picasso, depicting marine creatures, animals, human figures, and mythological scenes.

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Préhistoire, une énigme moderne

May 8–September 16, 2019
Centre Pompidou, Paris
www.centrepompidou.fr

This exhibition examines the link between prehistory and modern and contemporary art. It reveals that some of the most important artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been haunted by the question, What is prehistory? Work by Alberto Giacometti, Yves Klein, Giuseppe Penone, and Pablo Picasso is included.

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Inspired by Rembrandt
100 jaar verzamelen door het Rembrandthuis

June 7–September 1, 2019
Museum het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam
www.rembrandthuis.nl

To mark one hundred years of its collection, Museum het Rembrandthuis celebrates the famous artist with a special program in his own house. This exhibition features works from the museum’s collection by Rembrandt as well as by contemporary artists who were inspired by him. Work by Glenn Brown and Pablo Picasso is included.

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Pablo Picasso in
La Collection Courtauld: Le parti de l’impressionnisme

February 20–June 17, 2019
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr

The exhibition presents more than 110 works from the collection of the British entrepreneur and art patron Samuel Courtauld, none of which have been shown in Paris in sixty years. Work by Pablo Picasso is included.

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Der Junge Picasso
Blaue und Rosa Periode

February 3–June 16, 2019
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
www.fondationbeyeler.ch

Dedicated to early paintings and sculptures by Pablo Picasso, made during his Blue and Rose periods, 1900–06, this is the most comprehensive exhibition ever presented in Europe of this critical span of the artist’s career. This exhibition has traveled from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. 

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Peindre la nuit

October 13, 2018–April 15, 2019
Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
www.centrepompidou-metz.fr

This exhibition explores the night in modern and contemporary painting, music, literature, photography, and video. With a focus on the perception of night rather than its iconography, the exhibition intends to be a nocturnal experience. Work by Harold Ancart, Francis Bacon, Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, and Ed Ruscha is included. 

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Pablo Picasso in
Le cubisme

October 17, 2018–February 25, 2019
Centre Pompidou, Paris
www.centrepompidou.fr

Le cubisme takes a fresh look at Cubism with some three hundred artworks and documents. The exhibition is presented chronologically in fourteen sections and highlights Cubism’s momentous, multifaceted development, going back to Primitivism and non-Western sources. Work by Pablo Picasso is included.

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Elisabeth Frink
Humans and Other Animals

October 13, 2018–February 24, 2019
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England
scva.ac.uk

Elisabeth Frink: Humans and Other Animals reappraises the work of an important British sculptor in the largest exhibition since her death in 1993. The show provides new perspectives on the key themes found in her oeuvre, juxtaposing and connecting her work with ancient art and with works by contemporary artists and other modern masters. Work by Douglas Gordon and Pablo Picasso is included.

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Picasso
La Scultura

October 24, 2018–February 3, 2019
Galleria Borghese, Rome
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The Galleria Borghese presents Italy’s first exhibition dedicated to Pablo Picasso’s sculptures. The show is curated by Anna Coliva and Diana Widmaier Picasso, the artist’s granddaughter.

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El sur de Picasso
Referencias andaluzas

October 9, 2018–February 3, 2019
Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain
www.museopicassomalaga.org

This ambitious exhibition provides a synthesis of Spanish art history by displaying works by Pablo Picasso alongside valuable archaeological artifacts and paintings by masters such as Velázquez, Murillo, and Goya. The show moves from Iberian art through classical antiquity and the Baroque, and ends with the modern art of Picasso. The exhibition is part of the international Picasso-Méditerranée project, led by Musée national Picasso-Paris.

September 4, 2018–January 13, 2019
Musée national Picasso–Paris
www.museepicassoparis.fr

Picasso: Masterpieces! attempts to answer the question, “What is the meaning of a Picasso masterpiece?” By bringing together some of his greatest works, a number of which are being shown in Paris for the first time, the exhibition offers a new look at Picasso’s creativity, with special attention given to his critical reception. The show explores the exhibitions, articles, and publications that accompanied the various artworks and helped forge their reputation as masterpieces over the years.

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Les vacances de M. Pablo
Picasso à Antibes Juan-les-Pins 1920–1946

September 29, 2018–January 13, 2019
Musée Picasso, Antibes, France
www.antibes-juanlespins.com

Pablo Picasso spent his summer vacations in Juan-les-Pins, and the work he produced there includes paintings and drawings of the villas where he stayed with his family and of bathers on the beach, as well as many studies for paintings that were realized in Paris. This exhibition displays one hundred works made during these visits.

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Bleu et Rose

September 18, 2018–January 6, 2019
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
www.musee-orsay.fr

This exhibition is dedicated to early paintings and sculptures by Pablo Picasso made during his Blue and Rose periods, 1900–06. This critical span of the artist’s career has not previously been covered in its entirety by a French museum.

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Hot Sun, Late Sun. Untamed Modernism

April 21–October 28, 2018
Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, France
www.fondation-vincentvangogh-arles.org

This thematic exhibition explores light, understood as a metaphor illuminating the relationships between artists and the Mediterranean region, home to experimentation, modernism, and postmodernism. Work by Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso will be included.

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MoMA at NGV
130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art

June 9–October 8, 2018
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
www.ngv.vic.gov.au

MoMA at NGV will provide a unique survey of the museum’s iconic collection. Two hundred key works will be arranged chronologically into eight thematic sections. The exhibition will trace the development of art and design from late-nineteenth-century urban and industrial transformation through to the digital and global present. Work by Alexander Calder, Andreas Gursky, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Pablo Picasso, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol will be included.

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Picasso 1932
Love, Fame, Tragedy

March 8–September 9, 2018
Tate Modern, London
www.tate.org.uk

Nineteen thirty-two was an intensely creative period for Pablo Picasso and his first ever solo show at Tate Modern exhibits more than one hundred paintings, sculptures, and drawings, as well as family photographs and other ephemera offering rare glimpses into his personal life.

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Pablo Picasso
Guernica

March 27–July 29, 2018
Musée national Picasso–Paris
www.museepicassoparis.fr

Guernica (1937), the anti-Franco, anti-fascist, and pacifist symbol, is permanently installed in Madrid, but with an exceptional collection of sketches and archives, this exhibition proposes a lesson on the history of the work and clarifies questions about Picasso’s political engagement.

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Nude
Art from the Tate Collection

March 24–June 24, 2018
Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
yokohama.art.museum

Journeying through time, from the nineteenth century to the present, this exhibition brings together masterpieces by renowned artists including Francis Bacon, John Currin, Alberto Giacometti, Man Ray, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Cindy Sherman. More than one hundred artworks tell the story of the nude and trace artists’ captivation with the human form over the past two centuries. The exhibition has most recently traveled from the Seoul Olympic Museum of Art.