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Close-up of one of the pieces from the ‘Picasso poet’ exhibition

Picasso Museum inaugurates two new temporary exhibitions

They look at the artist's friendship with Paul Éluard and the painter’s poetic side.

New temporary exhibitions at the Picasso Museum from 8 November. Two exhibitions that complement each other, to some extent, as one looks at Picasso’s friendship with Paul Éluard and the other at the importance of poetry in the painter’s creative process. They are called “Pablo Picasso, Paul Eluard: a sublime friendship” and “Picasso poet”, and both will be on through March.

Curated by Emmanuel Guigon and Malén Gual, director and curator, respectively, of the Picasso Museum, the exhibition focusing on the friendship between the Andalusian genius and Paul Éluard offers a themed, chronological journey through the lives of these figures through books and poems, illustrated works, portraits and drawings of Éluard and his second wife Nusch Éluard, and photos by Man Ray and Brassaï, among other materials. According to the Museum, Éluard was Picasso’s best friend from 1935 and the only poet he felt he could speak, share and exchange ideas with.

The “Picasso poet” exhibition, also curated by Guigon and in this case with four co-curators, takes a general overview, based on new research, at Picasso’s work and the close ties between writing, especially poetry, and painting. The exhibition comes three decades after the Picasso poète, le crayon qui parle” (Picasso Poet, the Talking Pencil) exhibition at the Musée National Picasso in Paris, which is also the exhibition’s next destination after it closes in Barcelona, along with the one on Éluard.

More information is available here.

Publication date: Monday, 04 November 2019
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