"Picasso - Working on Paper"
2000-03-30 until 0000-00-00
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Dublin, , IE Ireland

This exhibition draws together works by Picasso, made throughout his life, which use newspaper as a ground material and as a subject. Early Cubist collages are shown alongside the drawings on broadsheet newspaper pages (made during the Occupation in the 1940s), with worked on photographs and an array of archive material. One can see the mind of the artist at work as he makes use of available resources and plays with the idea of a newspaper and with the material.

The artist regularly returned to this process and the exhibition covers the period 1878-1963, essentially Picasso's working life as an artist. This work has not been seen in Ireland before, and some of the pieces and the archive material are being shown for the first time anywhere. The exhibition is curated by Anne Baldassari of the Musee Picasso in Paris, which has loaned most of the material. Other works come from the Picasso family and selected museum collections in Europe.

The exhibition is accompanied by a 190-page catalogue with 200 colour images and a substantial essay by Anne Baldassari.

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