The Young PICASSO – Blue and Rose Periods February 3 – May 26, 2019

Media release

“I was a painter and became Picasso.” Pablo Picasso

This exhibition, the most ambitious ever staged by the Fondation Beyeler, is devoted to the paintings and sculptures of the young Pablo Picasso from the so-called Blue and Rose periods, between 1901 and 1906. For the first time in Europe, the masterpieces of these crucial years, most of them a milestone on Picasso’s path to preeminence as the twentieth century’s most famous artist, are presented together, in a concentration and quality that are unparalleled. Picasso’s pictures from this phase of creative ferment are some of the finest and most emotionally compelling examples of modern painting, and are counted among the most valuable and sought-after works in the entire history of art. It is unlikely that they will be seen again in such a selection in a single place.

At the age of just twenty, the rising genius Picasso (1881–1973) embarked on a quest for new themes and forms of expression, which he immediately refined to a pitch of perfection. One artistic revolution followed another, in a rapid succession of changing styles and visual worlds. The focus of the exhibition is on the Blue and Rose periods, and thus on the six years in the life of the young Picasso that can be considered central to his entire oeuvre, paving the way for the epochal emergence of Cubism, which developed from Picasso’s previous work, in 1907. Here, the exhibition converges with the Fondation Beyeler’s permanent collection, whose earliest picture by Picasso is a study, dating from this pivotal year, for the Demoiselles d’Avignon.

In the chronologically structured exhibition, Picasso’s early painting career is explored through examples of his treatment of human subjects. Journeying back and forth between Paris and Barcelona, he addressed the human figure in a series of different approaches. In the phase dominated by the color blue, from 1901, he observed the material deprivation and the psychological suffering of people on the margins of society, before turning – in 1905, when he had settled in Paris – to the themes of the Rose period, conferring the dignity of art on the hopes and yearnings of circus performers: jugglers, acrobats and harlequins. In his search for a new artistic authenticity, Picasso stayed for several weeks in mid-1906 in the village of Gósol, in the Spanish Pyrenees, and created a profusion of paintings and sculptures uniting classical and archaic ideals of the body. Finally, the increasing deformation and fragmentation of the figure, apparent in the “primitivist” pictures, especially of the female nude, which were painted subsequently in Paris, heralds the emergence of the new pictorial language of Cubism.

The poignant and magical works of the Blue and Rose periods, painted in Spain and France, have a universal appeal and validity. Existential themes – life, love, sexuality, fate and death – find embodiment in the delicate beauty of young female and male figures, and in depictions of children and of old people scarred by life, whose emotions comprise happiness and joy, but also loneliness and melancholy.

The comprehensive exhibition includes around seventy-five paintings and sculptures rarely loaned by renowned museums in Europe, the USA, Canada, Russia, China and Japan, such as the Musée national Picasso, Paris; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Tate Gallery, London; the National Gallery, Washington, D. C.; the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; the National Museum of Art, Osaka; the Centre Pompidou and the Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris; the Museu Picasso, Barcelona; the Centro de

Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. These masterpieces are supplemented by further outstanding works from private collections, some of which will be presented in public for the first time in many decades.

In terms of organizational effort and cost, this is the highest-caliber exhibition project in the history of the Fondation Beyeler. Years of preparation have been devoted to the presentation, which is certain to be one of Europe’s cultural highlights in 2019. The works on display are all major attractions in the museums from which they have been assembled. The Exhibition is being organised by the Fondation Beyeler in collaboration with the Musées d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie, Paris, and the Musée National Picasso-Paris, where it will be shown in a modified form before traveling to Basel. The exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler is curated by Dr. Raphaël Bouvier, Curator at the Foundation.

Information on opening hours, ticket prices, guided tours and special events are available at fondationbeyeler.ch.

The exhibition “The Young PICASSO – Blue and Rose Periods” is generously supported by: Beyeler-Stiftung Hansjörg Wyss, Wyss Foundation Main partner Swisscom Partners and donors BNP Paribas Swiss Foundation Federal Office of Culture FOC Simone & Peter Forcart-Staehelin Eckhart & Marie-Jenny Koch-Burckhardt L. + Th. La Roche-Stiftung Dr. Christoph M. Müller & Sibylla M. Müller Novartis Stavros Niarchos Foundation Freundeskreis der Fondation Beyeler as well as further patrons who prefer to remain anonymous Media partner SonntagsBlick Süddeutsche Zeitung

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Introduction of the exhibition

Pablo Picasso’s pioneering works of the Blue and Rose Periods, which characterize his oeuvre from 1901 to 1906, ushered in the art of the twentieth-century and at the same time constitute one of its outstanding achievements. In fact, Picasso’s pictures from these years include some of the subtlest examples of modern painting and are now among the most valuable and sought-after art treasures of all.

Extensive presentations of these works are accordingly rare. The exhibition “The Young Picasso: Blue and Rose Periods” at the Fondation Beyeler thus represents a milestone in the history of the museum. The show traces the unparalleled artistic development that began with the works of the early months of 1901, when Picasso was not yet twenty, and continued until 1907. In the course of these six years, the young Pablo Ruiz Picasso developed his own personal style and became “Picasso,” as he began to sign his works in 1901. The compelling images of the Blue and Rose Periods, characterized by a unique emotional power and depth, show the artist from an exceptionally sensitive side and thus offer a nuanced picture of his work and personality.

The exhibition begins with works from the early months of 1901, created initially in Madrid and then above all during Picasso’s second stay in Paris. These exuberantly colorful paintings, which clearly exhibit the influence of Vincent van Gogh and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, reveal Picasso’s personal view of Paris and the elegant world of the Belle Époque. From the late summer of 1901 onward, following the tragic suicide of his artist-friend Carles Casagemas, who had accompanied him during his first visit to Paris, in 1900, Picasso began work on a series of pictures in which the color blue became the dominant expressive element, announcing the start of the so-called Blue Period. He created these works, pervaded by an atmosphere of melancholy and spirituality, in the following years, up to 1904, as he moved back and forth between Paris and Barcelona. They owe at least part of their inspiration to Symbolism and the singular Mannerist style of El Greco and show Picasso engaging with existential questions of life, love, sexuality, fate, and death, movingly embodied by fragile, introverted figures of all ages. The pictures of the Blue Period are mainly concerned with marginalized victims of society, in situations of extreme vulnerability—beggars, people with disabilities, prostitutes, and prisoners, living in poverty and misery, whose despair is mitigated, however, by an aura of dignity and grace. This also reflects Picasso’s own precarious circumstances before his breakthrough as an artist.

His final relocation to Paris, in 1904, when he set up his studio at the Bateau-Lavoir, marked the beginning of a new phase in his life and work. It is at this point that Picasso met Fernande Olivier, his first longer-term companion and muse. The pictures gradually break free from the limited palette dominated by blue, which gives way to warmer rose and ochre tones, although the underlying mood of melancholy still persists. Picasso’s works are increasingly populated by jugglers, performers, and acrobats, in group or family configurations, personifying the anti-bourgeois, bohemian life of the circus and the art world. In 1906 the artist achieved his first major commercial success, when the dealer Ambroise Vollard bought nearly the entire stock of new pictures in his studio. This enabled Picasso, with Olivier, to leave Paris and spend several weeks in the Catalonian mountain village of Gósol. Under the impression of the rugged landscape and the villagers’ simple way of life, Picasso painted mainly pictures of human figures in idyllic, primordial settings, combining classical and archaic elements.

In the fall of 1906, after his return to Paris, he spent some time absorbing the impressions from his recent encounters with ancient Iberian sculpture and the visual world of Paul Gauguin, and began, in his quest for a new artistic authenticity, to formulate a Primitivist pictorial language. This found expression in an innovative reduction and simplification of the human figure. In sharp contrast to the fine-limbed creatures of the circus world, Picasso’s figures from this phase are bulky and heavy, with impressive female nudes whose bodies take on almost geometric form. This new conception of the figure took a further, radical turn

in 1907, in the works that would lead—also under the growing influence of African and Oceanic art—to Picasso’s revolutionary painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, proclaiming the advent of Cubism.

The development of the Blue and Rose Periods makes it clear that the young Picasso managed, within just six years, to achieve a preternaturally early aesthetic perfection, incorporating artistic mannerisms and archaisms into the articulation of new principles for the depiction of the human body through deformation and deconstruction. In a process that only appears contradictory, Picasso’s striving for new aesthetic possibilities advanced through several forms of refinement, and in a gradual emancipation from classical ideals of beauty, to the realization of a groundbreaking form of artistic authenticity and autonomy. Cubism, in this light, no longer appears as a radical hiatus in Picasso’s oeuvre, but rather as the logical extension of the artistic ideas of the Blue and Rose Periods.

The exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, which has been organized in collaboration with the Musées d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie and the Musée national Picasso-Paris, differs from the first presentation in Paris in one important respect: its prospective extension of the view of Picasso’s Blue and Rose Periods by the inclusion of the artist’s first proto-Cubist pictures from 1907, created in the context of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. One of the preliminary studies for the latter work, titled Femme (époque des “Demoiselles d’Avignon”), forms the spectacular starting point of the Fondation Beyeler’s extensive Picasso collection, and at the same time marks the finale of this exhibition. Whereas the presentation in Paris supplemented the finished works with numerous preliminary studies and copious archive material, the exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler places the focus firmly on Picasso’s painting and sculpture in the period concerned. With some seventy-five masterpieces from renowned museums and outstanding private collections across the globe, the show presents the quintessence of Picasso’s oeuvre from 1901 to 1907, illuminating a chief phase of transition in the multifaceted work of the young artist. Many central works from this period now count among the major attractions in the collections of leading international museums. Yet, several key works are still in private hands—a number of which are on public display in Riehen for the first time in many decades.

The Fondation Beyeler presentation is the first in Switzerland dedicated to both the Blue and Rose Periods. It therefore complements the two shows that the Kunstmuseum Bern held in 1984 and 1992, devoted respectively to Picasso’s early work and the Blue Period and to the subsequent Rose Period. The exhibitions staged in close cooperation at the Fondation Beyeler and the Musée d’Orsay are in fact the first in Europe dedicated to Picasso’s Blue and Rose Periods in an unmatched concentration and quality.

The show at the Fondation Beyeler can also be seen as a tribute to the museum’s founders, Ernst and Hildy Beyeler, who saw in Picasso an artist who set new standards and rendered a service in diverse ways by their continued commitment to his work. The Galerie Beyeler devoted eleven monographic exhibitions to Picasso and included his work in numerous group shows, and was responsible, over the decades, for transactions involving more than a thousand works by Picasso. In the course of their collaboration, Ernst and Hildy Beyeler also formed a friendly relationship with Picasso. No fewer than thirty-three of Picasso’s works passed into the Beyeler Collection, making the Fondation Beyeler one of the world’s foremost museums with substantial holdings of his art. Strikingly, the Beyeler Collection does not possess even a single work from the Blue or Rose Periods: the two collectors concentrated on Picasso’s work after 1907. Nonetheless, key pictures from the Blue and Rose Periods—including La Buveuse assoupie (1902), Femme au corbeau (1904), and Acrobate et jeune arlequin (1905)—were exhibited, placed, and sold by the Galerie Beyeler. Some of these works are now to be seen in Basel, where they form an ideal temporary complement, alongside the many other masterpieces featured in the exhibition, to the Picassos in the Beyeler Collection. Following the 2005 show “The Surrealist Picasso”, we are pleased and proud to present “The Young Picasso: Blue and Rose Periods” as the second major monographic exhibition dedicated to Picasso at the Fondation Beyeler. The Young PICASSO – Blue and Rose Periods February 3 – May 26, 2019

01 Pablo Picasso 02 Pablo Picasso 03 Pablo Picasso Acrobate et jeune arlequin, 1905 Femme en chemise (Madeleine), 1904–1905 La Vie, 1903 Gouache on cardboard, 105 x 76 cm Oil on canvas, 72.7 x 60 cm Oil on canvas, 197 x 127.3 cm Private collection London, Tate, Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933 The Cleveland Museum of Art, Donation Hanna Fund © Succession Picasso / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich © Succession Picasso / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich © Succession Picasso / ProLitteris, Zurich 2018 Photo: © Tate, London 2018 Photo: © The Cleveland Museum of Art

04 Pablo Picasso 05 Pablo Picasso 06 Pablo Picasso Autoportrait, 1901 Arlequin assis, 1901 Famille de saltimbanques avec un singe, 1905 Oil on canvas, 81 x 60 cm Oil on canvas, 83.2 x 61.3 cm Gouache, watercolour and ink on cardboard, 104 x 75 cm Musée national Picasso-Paris New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Göteborg Konstmuseum, Purchase 1922 © Succession Picasso / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich Purchase Mr. and Mrs. John L. Loeb, Gift 1960 © Succession Picasso / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich Photo: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national © Succession Picasso / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich Photo: © Göteborg Konstmuseum Picasso-Paris) / Mathieu Rabeau Photo: ©The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource / Scala, Florence

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07 Pablo Picasso 08 Pablo Picasso 09 Pablo Picasso Femme en bleu, 1901 La Mort de Casagemas, 1901 Arlequin et sa compagne, 1901 Oil on canvas, 133 x 100 cm Oil on wood, 27 x 35 cm Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofía Musée national Picasso-Paris Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts © Succession Picasso / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich © Succession Picasso / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich © Succession Picasso / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich Photo: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Mathieu Rabeau

10 Pablo Picasso 11 Pablo Picasso 12 Pablo Picasso Yo Picasso, 1901 Femme assise au ﬁchu, 1901 Le Repas de l’aveugle, 1903 Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 60 cm Oil on canvas, 100 x 69.2 cm Oil on canvas, 95.3 x 94.6 cm Private collection The Detroit Institute of Arts, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, © Succession Picasso / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill Purchase Mr. and Mrs. Ira Haupt, Gift 1950 © Succession Picasso / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich © Succession Picasso / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich Photo: © Bridgeman Images Photo: © 2017, The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource / Scala, Florence

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13 Pablo Picasso 14 Pablo Picasso 15 Pablo Picasso Tête d’un arlequin, 1905 Femme de l’Île de Majorque, 1905 Femme à l’éventail, 1905 Oil on canvas, 40.7 x 31.8 cm Gouache and watercolour on cardboard, 67 x 51 cm Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 81 cm The Detroit Institute of Arts, Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Washington, National Gallery of Art, Gift of the W. Averell Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill © Succession Picasso / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Hariman © Succession Picasso / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich © Succession Picasso / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich Photo: © Bridgeman Images

16 Pablo Picasso 17 Pablo Picasso 18 Pablo Picasso Arlequin assis sur fond rouge, 1905 Autoportrait, 1906 Nu sur fond rouge (Jeune femme nue Watercolour and ink on cardboard, 57.5 x 41.2 cm Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm à la chevelure), 1906 Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Musée national Picasso-Paris Oil on canvas, 81 x 54 cm Museum Berggruen © Succession Picasso / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, © Succession Picasso / 2018 ProLitteris, Zurich 2018 Photo: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Collection Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume Photo: bpk / Nationalgalerie, SMB, Museum Berggruen / Mathieu Rabeau © Succession Picasso / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich Jens Ziehe Photo: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée de l’Orangerie) / Hervé Lewandowski

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19 Pablo Picasso 20 Pablo Picasso Femme (Epoque des «Demoiselles d’Avignon»), 1907 Anonymous Oil on canvas, 119 x 93.5 cm Pablo Picasso on Place Ravignan, Montmartre, Paris, 1904 Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel Silver gelatin print on paper, 12 x 8.9 cm © Succession Picasso / 2018 ProLitteris, Zurich Musée national Picasso-Paris Photo: Robert Bayer, Basel

18 Pablo Picasso Nu sur fond rouge (Jeune femme nue à la chevelure), 1906 Oil on canvas, 81 x 54 cm Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Collection Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume © Succession Picasso / 2018, ProLitteris, Zurich Photo: © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée de l’Orangerie) / Hervé Lewandowski

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Facts & Figures: “The Young PICASSO – Blue and Rose Periods”

• The exhibition is the most costly, complex and ambitious project ever carried out by the Fondation Beyeler.

• Preparatory work on the exhibition took around 4 years.

• Around seventy-five paintings and sculptures rarely loaned are spread over 10 rooms, and with a display area of 1622 m2, the exhibition is the most expansive ever staged at the Fondation Beyeler.

• The exhibition catalogue, numbering 304 pages and featuring 17 background articles, is the museum’s most comprehensive publication to date.

• The artistic treasures of the Blue and Rose Periods have an insured value of around 4 billion Swiss francs.

• Loans have been granted by a total of 41 lenders, of which 28 museums. The remaining exhibits are on loan from private collections. Lender museums include the Musée national Picasso in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Tate in London, the National Gallery in Washington, D. C., the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, the National Museum of Art in Osaka, the Centre Pompidou and the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and many more.

• Exhibits on loan are travelling from 13 different countries: Switzerland, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, Sweden, the Principality of Liechtenstein, Russia, the Czech Republic, the US, Canada, Japan.

• An additional 60 members of staff have been hired in order to ensure a comfortable viewing experience for visitors as well as the safety of the works on display.

• By purchasing tickets online, visitors can avoid queuing at the museum’s ticket desk. Online tickets furthermore grant visitors access to a separate cloakroom. shop.fondationbeyeler.ch

“The Young PICASSO – Blue and Rose Periods”: a multimedia mediation space provides additional insights into the artist’s life and work

As a companion display to our major exhibition “The Young PICASSO – Blue and Rose Periods”, we teamed up with iart to design a new multimedia mediation space. Multimedia books and a film provide playful and profound insights into the young Picasso’s life and work. Six interactive books allow visitors to connect directly with Picasso’s world through touch. The books focus on Picasso’s early stylistic development, from the Blue and Rose Periods to the beginnings of Cubism. They also present the artist’s main physical contexts and inspirations.

Our interactive books combine the tactile experience of traditional picture books with the playful possibilities of multimedia design. While some areas on the page are printed, others are used as projection surfaces for moving images. A riveting combination of imagery, text, sound and touch allows visitors to immerse themselves fully in Picasso’s unique world: a novel form of art mediation for visitors of all ages. A film projected in the multimedia space uses historical visuals to convey a sense of Picasso’s eventful biography and his milieu and surroundings in the years 1900 to 1907. The multimedia space thus provides a fascinating panorama of Picasso’s life and work on his path to preeminence as the twentieth century’s most famous artist.

As the Fondation Beyeler’s partner for multimedia art mediation, the Fondation BNP Paribas Suisse provides generous support for the multimedia space of the exhibition “The Young PICASSO – Blue and Rose Periods”.

Associated events “The Young PICASSO – Blue and Rose Periods”

The Fondation Beyeler invites you to immerse yourself in the world of the early 20th century: for the duration of the exhibition from 3 February to 26 May 2019, the museum’s basement will host the Café Parisien, where visitors can eat, drink, talk, and enjoy the venue’s special and nostalgic atmosphere. On Wednesdays, the Café Parisien turns into a variety theatre, hosting colourful, entertaining and artistic acts. As a young man in Paris, Pablo Picasso moved in bohemian circles of artists and acrobats. The inspiration he drew from these companions and from their shared favourite haunts can be traced in many of the works created during this period.

Variety Night Saturday 6 April, 6.30–11.00pm Freaky, sexy, swanky, strange – anybody nostalgic for early 1920s bohemia should attend. Guests can look forward to an unforgettable evening including a tour of the exhibition followed by a colourful and artistic dance, acrobatics and music show. The ticket price includes admission to the museum, the show, delicious tapas and a welcome drink. Price: CHF 150.– including welcome drink and tapas

Blue Hour Every Wednesday evening, visitors can immerse themselves in early 20th-century Paris nightlife at the Café Parisien. Its wide-ranging programme covers flamenco, burlesque, drag shows, French chanson, literary events and art historical lectures.

Wednesday 6 February Barkeeper’s Choice with the Cocktaileers & French electro- 6.00–8.00pm pop by Rouge Rouge Let the Cocktaileers barkeepers carry you away to another world with their drinks and a dash of magic. Watch out for their eye-catching blue and pink cocktails. Drinks are mixed using local ingredients and organic garden herbs. French DJ Rouge Rouge provides a sound backdrop of electro-pop.

Wednesday 6 February, 13 March, Blue & Rose Strolls 20 March and 8 May During the “blue hour”, young experts invite visitors to 6.00–8.00pm spontaneous tours of the young Picasso’s visual world. The strolls last 10 to 20 minutes and provide an open format in which to focus on one to three works in the exhibition.

Wednesday 13 February “’Picasso. Bleu et rose’ et le ‘moviment’”: lecture by art 6.30–8.00pm historian Laurent Le Bon, President of the Musée national Picasso-Paris In his lecture, Laurent Le Bon describes the background of the exhibition “Picasso. Bleu et rose”, which was on show at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris last year and is now being presented at the Fondation Beyeler in an adapted form. The term “moviment” is a combination of the words “monument” and “mouvement” coined by French writer Francis Ponge. The lecture will be held in French.

Wednesday 20 February Burlesque with Anja Pavlova 6.30–8.00pm In her poetic performances, Anja Pavlova combines classic burlesque – the art of undressing – and 20th-century American jazz and blues dance. Her breathtaking costumes are inspired by Art Nouveau. Anja Pavlova is the recipient of numerous awards and has performed worldwide on stages in Saint Petersburg, San Francisco, Stockholm and Beirut. Minimum admission age: 16

Wednesday 6 March and 17 April “Le beau est toujours bizarre” with Ballett Theater Basel From 6.30pm From black swan to tantalising tango to fiery flamenco – the dancers of Theater Basel take their audience on a journey into a strange and erotic, dark dreamscape. In the spirit of Charles Baudelaire’s motto “Le beau est toujours bizarre”, choreographer and ballet director Richard Wherlock creates a panopticon of dance fantasies full of contradictions and sensual turmoil, in which existential and universal themes such as love, lust, ecstasy and melancholia find their expression.

Wednesday 20 March Signature cocktails from the Les Trois Rois bar with jazz 6.00–8.00pm music by Taschenorchester Thomas Huhn, Chef de Bar at the Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois, beguiles guests with sophisticated classic cocktails served in the unique atmosphere of the Café Parisien. The band Taschenorchester brings musical stories to life with great humour, playfulness and depth.

Wednesday 3 April Flamenco with Sara Pérez (Casa Patas, Madrid) 6.30–8.30pm The fiery show of Madrid-born dancer Sara Pérez displays the many facets of flamenco. A traditional combination of vocals (cante), dance (baile) and music (toque), flamenco joined UNESCO’s list of intangible cultural heritage in 2010.

Wednesday 10 April Drag show with Violet Chachki 6.30–8.00pm American drag queen Violet Chachki is renowned for her sophisticated and captivating performances, and ranks among th the most sought-after practitioners of her art. She won the 7 season of the successful TV show “RuPaul’s Drag Race”, has walked the runway for Moschino and attended Jean-Paul Gaultier’s fashion shows as a guest. Glamorous, chic, artful, seductive and charming – an unforgettable evening awaits.

Wednesday 24 April “Picasso’s artistic practice in the Blue and Rose periods”: 6.30–8.00pm lecture by Dr Marilyn McCully Art historian Marilyn McCully provides fascinating insights into Picasso’s artistic activity during the Blue and Rose Periods: his studios, the significance of his models, his choice of materials and the role of drawing. As a Picasso expert, Marilyn McCully has curated international exhibitions and published numerous articles and essays. The lecture will be held in English.

Wednesday 1 May Lydie Auvray Trio – accordion and vocals 6.30–8.00pm Accordionist and singer Lydie Auvray presents her new album “Musetteries” at the Café Parisien. The “grande dame of accordion” offers a surprisingly fresh and authentic sound that transcends popular and traditional accordion playing. Her audience can expect an atmospheric journey across wide- ranging soundscapes, from tango to swing and African rhythms, as well as charming explanations of the poignant French lyrics.

Wednesday 8 May Absinthe delights with the Cocktaileers 6.00–8.00pm The figure of the absinthe drinker inspired many artists, including Picasso during his Blue Period – the so-called “green fairy” is a recurrent theme of fin-de-siècle painting and literature, as exemplified among others by Édouard Manet, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Degas and Vincent van Gogh. The Cocktaileers will thus devote a full evening to absinthe-based cocktail creations.

Wednesday 15 May “Le Sage et Le Fou” – Tarek Halaby and Simon Thierrée 6.30–8.00pm A cabaret within a cabaret! Inspired by the aesthetics of 1920s and 1930s Paris, dancer Tarek Halaby and musician Simon Thierrée reflect and parody the art world with humour and light-hearted irony. Inspired by Picasso’s art, their movements, music, stories and jokes move back and forth between science and abstract madness.

Lectures and cocktail evenings: included in the museum admission price Show evenings: CHF 20.– plus admission to the museum Drag show: CHF 35.– plus admission to the museum

Rose Hour One Friday a month, the Fondation Beyeler organises a morning meditation at the museum. MIND IN Meditation guides participants through the meditation to help them sense and perceive the effect of the colour pink. The exhibition can then be viewed in a relaxed atmosphere before the museum opens its doors to regular visitors. Friday 22 February, 29 March, 12 April and 3 May 2019, 9.00–9.30am Price: CHF 10.– plus admission to the museum The number of participants is limited.

Associated art mediation events

Open Studio Picasso Every last weekend of the month, our Open Studio offers those who enjoy art and design an opportunity to confront themselves in greater depth with Picasso’s works and try a wide range of creative experiments. Taster tours, brief painting sessions or sustained creative endeavours – everyone will find a format to suit his or her preferences. Participation is free of charge and suitable for all age groups (children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult). 22 February, 2.00–6.00pm; 23/24 February, 10.00am–6.00pm 29 March, 2.00–6.00pm; 30/31 March, 10.00am–6.00pm 26 April, 2.00–6.00pm; 27/28 April, 10.00am–6.00pm 24 May, 2.00–6.00pm; 25/26 May, 10.00am–6.00pm

The booklet for children A booklet for children maps a playful itinerary through the exhibition with ten entertaining games and tasks. Looking through the “pink-blue” glasses sheds a wholly different light on the artworks. The various manifestations of colour, ground and figure can be explored through drawing while exchanging fascinating stories on Picasso, in order to become better acquainted with the artist and his work. The booklet is available free of charge at the museum’s information desk (only in German).

Audio guide for adults with children One audio guide, two headsets: parents can share instructive audio tours of the exhibition with their children. The audio guide is available at the museum’s information desk at a price of CHF 8.–.

Picasso Family Day Sunday 5 May 2019 Art workshops, guided tours for families and games on the museum’s premises make for a fun-filled day for families at the Fondation Beyeler. The programme allows for an experimental and playful exploration of the works and the themes of our exhibition “The Young PICASSO – Blue and Rose Periods”. The event is included in the admission price.

Public tours Our guided tours give an overview of the exhibition and Picasso’s works. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 3.00–3.45pm Wednesday: 5.30–6.15pm Saturday and Sunday: 12.00–12.45pm

Monday tours These thematic tours invite visitors to join in a discussion with our art mediators about selected works or work series in the exhibition. Our Monday tours provide surprising insights and allow you to deepen your knowledge of individual works and specific themes. Price: museum admission + CHF 7.– Monday, 2.00–2.45pm

4 February: Chromatic moods: from blue to rose 18 February: The many faces of Pablo Picasso 4 March: Body lines and pictorial surfaces 25 March: Acrobats and harlequins 8 April: Love, life, death 29 April: Image composition and characteristic style 13 May: Colour weighting and depth

Art at lunchtime We all perceive images and react to them in our own individual way. Exchanging on these viewpoints is at the heart of the work analysis that takes place every second Wednesday at lunchtime. During a brief yet intense consideration of a selected artwork, visitors are also given in-depth information on the work, the artist and the historical context. Price: museum admission + CHF 7.– Wednesday, 12.30pm–1.00pm 13 February: Yo Picasso, 1901 27 February: La Vie, 1903 20 March: Acrobate et jeune arlequin, 1905 3 April: Femme dans la loge, 1901 / Buveuse d’absinthe, 1901 17 April: La Célestine, 1904 8 May: Arlequin assis au fond rouge, 1905 22 May: Femme nue assise, les jambes croisées, 1906

Schools The museum opens its doors to registered school groups from 9.00am and offers special tours. Information and registration under fondationbeyeler.ch/en/art-mediation/schools/

Fondation Beyeler opening hours: Daily from 10am to 6pm, Wednesdays from 10am to 8pm

Admission prices to the exhibition: Adults CHF 30.– Children up to age 15 free admission Students up to age 30 (ID required) CHF 15.– Art Club / Young Art Club members free admission Groups of 20 and more / IV pensioners (ID required) CHF 25.– Daily from 4.30pm and Wednesdays from 5pm CHF 25.–

Public tours and events Daily programme on: fondationbeyeler.ch/en/calendar/calendar/

Private tours for groups Information and registration: tel. +41 (0)61 645 97 20, [email protected]

Fun Facts Picasso

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le nombre d’œuvres que Picasso a réalisées USD erzielte das teuerste Picasso-Werk an einer Auktion. au cours de sa vie Les Femmes d’Alger („Version O“) von 1955

The total number of works Picasso created la somme, en USD, atteint Les Femmes d’Alger in the course of his life (la version dite « O ») de 1955, qui est devenu, lors de sa vente aux enchères le 11 mai 2015, le tableau le plus cher de Picasso

The highest price paid in USD at auction for a work by Picasso, so, 2000 Les Femmes d’Alger (“Version O”) from 1955 Francs bezahlte der Pariser Galerist Ambroise Vollard 1906 für rund 20 Bilder aus Picassos Rosa Periode. Das entspricht dem heutigen Gegenwert von ungefähr Euro 7700 oder CHF 8700 18 la somme, en francs français de l’époque, déboursée en 1906 par Gemälde übermalte Picasso zwischen le galeriste parisien Ambroise Vollard pour une vingtaine de peintures 1901 und 1907 de la période rose. Cela correspondrait aujourd’hui à environ 7700 Euro ou 8700 CHF le nombre de tableaux qu’il a repeints et recouverts d’un nouveau sujet entre 1901 et 1907 The price in francs paid by the Paris art dealer Ambroise Vollard in 1906 for some twenty pictures from Picasso’s Rose period. The equivalent The number of pictures Picasso overpainted in today’s money would be around EUR 7700 or CHF 8700 between 1901 and 1907

Young up-and-coming designers create sophisticated products for the Fondation Beyeler’s Picasso Shop

To accompany the major exhibition “The Young PICASSO – Blue and Rose Periods”, the Fondation Beyeler and the FHNW Academy of Art and Design have teamed up to carry out a first-time exceptional project: master students at the Masterstudio Design / Swiss Cultural Entrepreneurship were given the opportunity to spend two semesters developing product ideas for the Picasso Shop inspired by Picasso’s paintings of the Blue and Rose Periods, in order to then experience the entire process from initial design to final product under real-life conditions.

At design stage, students identified the formal and conceptual characteristics as well as the main motifs of Picasso’s Blue and Rose Period works in order to reinterpret them. Students were then able to take part in the full product development process and gather valuable experience on their way to becoming independent designers: from the initial designs to confronting issues of aesthetics and functionality, finding production partners, identifying target groups, pricing, packaging design, presentation and sales. In the autumn of 2018, a five-member jury selected projects for realisation. Six different objects have now been produced and will become available from the Fondation Beyeler’s Picasso Shop from February 2019. Most are handcrafted unique pieces. Shop visitors can choose from blown-glass vases, golden hand mirrors, colourful soaps and wax crayons, a Mikado set and T-shirts for kids – all of them limited editions in specially designed packaging.

Interviews with students and videos documenting the production process are available on the Fondation Beyeler’s social media channels:

Instagram: #BeyelerPicasso Facebook: @FondationBeyeler Twitter: @Fond_Beyeler YouTube: @FondationBeyeler

Picasso TheBlue and Rose Periods

⁄ Rarely seen masterpieces at a glance ⁄ From one of Picasso’s most famous periods ⁄ Interpretations from multiple experts

In its most prestigious exhibition to date, the Fondation Beyeler has devoted itself to the early paintings and sculptures of Pablo Picasso (1881- 1973) that date from his so-called Blue and Pink periods to early Cubism. Most of the paintings from this stage of his career, all produced between 1901 and 1906, are milestones on the road Picasso took to becoming the most famous artist of the twentieth century. They can be counted among modernism’s most beautiful and most emotional works, and are also some of the most precious works of art ever to exist. This comprehensive exhibition and its companion catalogue feature around seventy-five masterpieces, most of which are only rarely loaned out by famous museums and private collections

around the world.

Picasso Blue and Rose Periods

Ed. Fondation Beyeler, Raphaël Bouvier, texts by Claire Bernardi, Raphaël Bouvier, Laurent Le Bon, Marilyn McCully, Stéphanie Molins, Emilia Philippot, graphic design by Silke Fahnert, Uwe Koch English, German 2019. 238 pp., 169 ills. Hardcover, halfcloth 27.40 x 31.00 cm ISBN 978-3-7757-4505-5 [German volume: ISBN 978-3-7757-4505-5] 60,00 € / CHF 68,00

Media release

Picasso Panorama January 13 – May 5, 2019

The exhibition “Picasso Panorama” leads into the coming months, which the Fondation Beyeler will devote to Pablo Picasso, culminating in the major exhibition “The Young PICASSO – Blue and Rose Periods” on view from February 3 to May 26, 2019. Up to the end of May, the Fondation Beyeler will thus turn into a museum dedicated entirely to the works of Pablo Picasso.

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), one of the most important artists of all time, exerted unparalleled influence on 20th-century modern art. The Fondation Beyeler owns more than 30 of his works, one of the largest and finest Picasso collections worldwide. “Picasso Panorama” is conceived as a tribute to the museum’s founders Ernst and Hildy Beyeler, for whom Picasso embodied the ideal artist. Over the decades, they sold more than 1000 of his works, devoted numerous exhibitions to him in their gallery, and their relationship evolved into friendship.

The paintings, works on paper and sculptures they collected span the period from early Cubism to the late works. In this display of the collection, they are complemented by permanent loans among others from the Anthax Collection Marx and the Rudolf Staechelin Collection. Before the viewer’s eye, the full panorama of visual worlds created by Picasso between 1907 and 1972 thus unfolds in 40 works. Picasso’s key periods and themes are considered in depth across eight rooms: Cubism and Classicism, Surrealist tendencies, his models Marie-Thérèse Walter and Dora Maar, the war years, artistic predecessors who inspired him, drawings and prints, the late works and the last years.

The show offers an extension to the major exhibition “The Young PICASSO – Blue and Rose Periods”, on view from February 3 to May 26, 2019, thereby temporarily turning the Fondation Beyeler into a museum dedicated entirely to the works of Pablo Picasso. The collection display was curated by Dr Raphaël Bouvier.

Drawing with Picasso: Thursdays 9.00am to 10.00am On Thursdays, the museum opens its doors to creative early risers at 9.00am. Led by a drawing expert during one hour, participants study Picasso’s masterpieces in the collection display and can try interesting methods and techniques right in front of the original works.

Information on opening hours, ticket prices, guided tours and special events is available at fondationbeyeler.ch.

Partners, foundations and patrons 2018 / 2019

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