Picasso and Modern British Art
Pablo Picasso Still Life with Mandolin 1924 © Succession Picasso / DACS 2011 © Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
- Date
- Wednesday 15th February - Thursday 5th July 2012
- Time
- 10.00-18.00
- Place
- Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
- Tickets
- General admission £15.50, concessions £13.50, free for Tate Members and Patrons.
- Learn More
- http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
How did this towering figure of 20th century art influence UK artists and change the nation's attitude to modern art?
This is the question a major new exhibition at Tate Britain seeks to illuminate. Picasso and Modern British Art explores the fascinating story of Picasso’s lifelong affection for this country as well as the impact he had on contemporaneous British artists.
The first exhibiton to trace Picasso’s rise in Britain, the display's broad chronology begins with Picasso's visit to London in 1919 to work on the scenery and costumes for Diaghilev’s ballet The Three Cornered Hat, and continues through to his groundbreaking 1960 Tate exhibition.
More than 60 original paintings and drawings by Picasso himself have been gathered for the show, with masterpieces such as Weeping Woman (1937) and The Three Dancers (1925) representing the most remarkable moments in his career.
These will be shown alongside artworks by seven of Picasso’s talented British admirers - Duncan Grant, Wyndham Lewis, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland and David Hockney. What emerges is a true sense of how Picasso's phenomenal creativity and vision, pioneering movements such as Surrealism and Cubism, propelled the art of this small island towards Modernism.
