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The Ey Exhibition: Picasso 1932 Love Fame Tragedy THE EY EXHIBITION: PICASSO 1932 LOVE FAME TRAGEDY 8 March – 9 September LARGE PRINT GUIDE Please return to the holder ROOM 1 1 ‘The work that one does is a way of keeping a diary’ Pablo Picasso 2 1 Cecil Beaton, Picasso in his apartment at 23 rue La Boétie, 1933 Photo © The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s. © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2018 3 2 Unknown photographer, Olga Picasso in Picasso’s studio, Fontainebleau, France, 1921 Photo © Pool Benainous/Scorcelletti/Gamma-Rapho. © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2018 4 3 Unknown photographer, Paulo Picasso aged 11 Collection Roger Viollet. Photo © Getty Images Quotation: Pablo Picasso in Tériade, ‘En causant avec Picasso’, L’Intransigeant, 15 June 1932, p.1 5 LOVE FAME TRAGEDY 1932 was a make-or-break year for Pablo Picasso (1881– 1973). In October 1931 he had turned fifty. He was inundated with invitations to exhibit his work. At the same time, critics openly discussed whether he was an artist of the past rather than the future. Picasso’s grand apartment on the rue La Boétie, his tailored suits and chauffeur-driven car symbolised his rise from poor Spanish migrant to international superstar, as did his marriage to the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova, his principal model and inspiration for much of the late 1910s and early 1920s. But Picasso felt increasingly restless and critically sidelined. He bought an eighteenth-century mansion in the Normandy countryside where he experimented with sculpture. He created a chaotic studio in a Parisian apartment identical to the one below in which he lived a life of bourgeois respectability with his wife and son. He was in a secretive relationship with a younger woman, Marie-Thérèse Walter. He flirted with surrealism while trying to beat Henri Matisse at his colourful game. These contradictions were brought into focus by his first major retrospective in June 1932. In the preceding months Picasso channelled his energies into ambitious paintings intended to silence his detractors. As the year progressed, 6 the mood darkened from sensuous exuberance to ominous anxiety. Rarely overtly political, Picasso’s work nonetheless reflected the times: a world – including his native Spain – increasingly in the grip of economic depression, mass unemployment, populist nationalism and the rise of totalitarian regimes. If 1932 began for Picasso under the sign of love, it ended with a premonition of tragedies to come. 7 Clockwise from wall text Woman with Dagger La Femme au stylet Oil paint on canvas Saturday 19 – Friday 25 December 1931, Paris Musée national Picasso – Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979. MP136 X64209 1 Woman in a Red Armchair Femme au fauteuil rouge Oil paint on canvas Friday 25 December 1931 Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte X63688 8 ‘Essentially there is only love. Whatever it may be.’ Pablo Picasso 9 Pablo Picasso, Flaming Heart Picasso has drawn a heart and arrow around the years, written by Marie-Thérèse Walter, marking the duration of their relationship to date. Private collection. © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2018 Quotation: Pablo Picasso in Tériade, ‘En causant avec Picasso’, L’Intransigeant, 15 June 1932, p.1 10 1 Christmas Day 1931, 23 rue La Boétie: having spent the festivities with family and friends, Picasso completed a small painting he had worked on for a week. Woman with Dagger is a surrealist nightmare of a woman killing her sexual rival. The same day, he also painted a large canvas of a seated woman, her facial features replaced with a heart. While the former alluded to increasingly strained marital relations, the latter was a painterly dream about Picasso’s secret lover, 22-year-old Marie-Thérèse Walter. Just as Olga Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter demarcated the poles of Picasso’s personal life, so his work explored the tensions between painting and sculpture, surrealist distortion and sensual colour harmonies. This complex force field gave rise to some of Picasso’s most accomplished works. It was his urge to renew and reinvent himself which turned 1932 into Picasso’s ‘year of wonders’. 11 12 13 Seated Woman Femme assise Plaster 1931, Boisgeloup Musée national Picasso – Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979. MP288 X64293 The Sculptor Le sculpteur Oil paint on plywood Monday 7 December 1931 Musée national Picasso – Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979. MP135 X60668 14 Monday 18 January 1932 Still Life at the Window Nature morte à la fenêtre Oil paint on canvas Private collection X59697 1931–2 Head of a Woman Tête de femme Bronze Musée national Picasso – Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979. MP302 2 X64300 15 Sunday 30 October 1932 Boisgeloup Seated Woman by a Window Femme assise près d’une fenêtre Oil paint on canvas Earth Light Foundation, Vaduz X60048 16 THE EY EXHIBITION: PICASSO 1932 LOVE FAME TRAGEDY 8 March – 9 September LARGE PRINT GUIDE Please return to the holder ROOM 2 17 ‘When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair, it’s old age and death, isn’t it? Too bad for her. Or maybe it’s for her protection.’ Pablo Picasso 18 1 Unknown photographer, Marie-Thérèse Walter on the beach, Dinard, c.1928 Photo © Archives Maya Widmaier-Ruiz-Picasso. All rights reserved 19 2 Brassaï, Picasso’s studio at 23 rue La Boétie, 1933 Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso – Paris)/ image RMN-GP. © Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2018. © Estate Brassaï 20 3 New York Herald [Tribune] report of the sale of Picasso, La Coiffure Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso – Paris)/ image RMN-GP Quotation: Pablo Picasso in André Malraux, La Tête d’obsidienne, Paris 1974, p.128 21 JANUARY AND FEBRUARY On 26 February 1932, Picasso’s La Coiffure (1905) sold in Paris for a record-breaking 56,000 Francs. Aside from raising hopes that the worst of the economic crisis might be over, this price was indicative of the high regard in which Picasso’s early work was held. Moments such as this strengthened Picasso’s resolve to prove his continued relevance. Throughout January, with his impending retrospective in mind, Picasso produced in his Paris studio a series of ambitious portrait paintings. All of them depict a female figure seated in an armchair, reading, sleeping or apparently absorbed in music. The sitter is almost certainly Marie-Thérèse Walter. The model, though, is imagined rather than real as Picasso was not in the habit of painting from life. Despite their shared subject matter, the paintings differ greatly in style and mood. Saturated colour harmonies alternate with surrealist distortion; at times the figure is shown in sensual abandon, at others it veers towards caricature or dissolves altogether into a sculptural arrangement of abstracted shapes. Seen together, these paintings testify as much to Picasso’s restless inventiveness as to his complex relationship with the women in his life. 22 The still life from early February markeda momentary break from the female figure as the dominant subject of Picasso’s work in 1932. 23 Clockwise from wall text Saturday 2 January 1932 Paris Figures by the Sea I Figures au bord de la mer I Oil paint and chalk on canvas Though one of the first paintings Picasso made in 1932, it clearly relates stylistically to works of the late 1920s. This raises the question as to whether Picasso dated works when he began their making or when he considered them complete. Subsequent groups of works show greater coherence, suggesting that, if they were not made in a single day, he produced them over a short period of time that ended with the inscribed date. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid X61634 24 Saturday 2 January 1932 Paris Reading La Lecture Oil paint on canvas Musée national Picasso – Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979. MP137 3 X59341 Saturday 23 January 1932 Paris Sleep Le Sommeil Oil paint on canvas Private collection X59698 25 Sunday 24 January 1932 Paris The Dream Le Rêve Oil paint on canvas Sleep and dream were central to the surrealist imagination but had long allowed artists to represent women for voyeuristic enjoyment. The Dream depicts a female figure in a state of abandon, perhaps after sex. The sitter is Marie- Thérèse Walter, Picasso’s lover of five years. The image goes beyond naturalistic portraiture to convey the artist’s emotional response. The fact that the upper half of the sleeping face resembles an erect male member attests to the artist’s desire to overcome sexual separation altogether. Private collection 5 X59739 26 Thursday 11 February 1932 Fruit Bowl and Guitar Compotier et guitare Oil paint on canvas Nahmad Collection, Monaco X59693 Wednesday 27 January 1932 Paris Woman in a Red Armchair Femme au fauteuil rouge Oil paint on canvas Musée national Picasso – Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979. MP138 X59447 27 Saturday 30 January 1932 Paris Seated Woman in a Red Armchair Femme assise dans un fauteuil rouge Oil paint on canvas Musée national Picasso – Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979. MP139 6 X59989 Sunday 10 January 1932 Young Woman with Mandolin Jeune Fille à la mandoline Oil paint on board The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Gift of The Carey Walker Foundation X59695 28 Saturday 9 January 1932 Reading La Lecture Oil paint on wood Private collection X59694 29 Dividing Wall Wednesday 6 January 1932 Boisgeloup The Yellow Belt La Ceinture jaune Oil paint on canvas Nahmad Collection, Monaco X59691 30 Friday 22 January 1932 Paris Rest Le Repos Oil paint on canvas There is often a thin line between beauty and terror in Picasso’s work. The distorted female figure here is clearly indebted to surrealism. The sitter’s posture blurs the boundaries between ecstasy and hysteria, abandon and agony.
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