It will be devoted to the life of the artist Françoise Gilot in the French town of Vallauris in 1940's - early 50-ies

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Pablo Picasso met 21-year-old artist Françoise Gilot (Francoise Gilot) in 1943 in Paris during the Nazi occupation. Many artists such as Max Ernst (Max Ernst), then fled from France to the United States, but Picasso did not want to leave the country, even though that the Germans forbade him to exhibit. "People of my generation admired Picasso, because he left - says now lives in Manhattan, Françoise Gilot, who is now 90 years old. - This courage was important for us».

After the war, in 1948, Picasso and Gilot had settled in the town of Vallauris in southern France. This move marked a new phase of Picasso, noted the fruitful work of the artist in the art of sculpture, ceramics, and lithography. C April 30 works of this period will be exhibited at two New York galleries of Larry Gagosian.

The upcoming exhibition - the fourth show of works by Picasso at Gagosian galleries. the last ten years, Pablo Picasso - the artist's most profitable Gallery. In the preparation of all four exhibitions attended by the heirs of the artist and his most famous biographer - Briton John Richardson (John Richardson). All three previous exposure to the standards of private galleries have become blockbusters: presented in which 300 works by the artist saw around 260 thousand people.

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«Ability to work closely with John Richardson, Picasso and the family in preparing our fourth major exhibition of the artist and the professional and personal point of view - one of the most exciting moments in the history of the gallery, "- says it all, Larry Gagosian the process of creating the exhibition.

88-year-old John Richardson for more than 20 years, from 1949 until the death of the artist in 1973, was friends with Pablo Picasso. For three solid trehsotstranichnyh catalogs of previous exhibitions, published in hardcover, Richardson wrote a serious essay, illustrated, in addition to reproductions of Picasso, his photographs and letters. According to the scientist, the fourth exhibition of Picasso's "Gagosyanom" will trace in detail the influence of Francoise Gilot, and Vallauris on the creativity of the artist of this period Picasso repeatedly depicted his muse with ceramics, paintings and lithographs.

« The years spent in Vallauris, Picasso's incredibly important to - says Richardson, a former professor at Oxford University. - It is a revolution in ceramics, turning it into art. He re-created the art of lithography, a former minor equipment, and turned it into one of the leading techniques. He broke all the canons. " In this period, for example, is a sculptural work of Picasso's "The Goat" (1950), collected by him from the craft of waste, including from an old wicker basket and two broken ceramic jars.

• Antibes, 1946
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• Vallauris, 1953
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in 1950 in southern France, and Richardson, Picasso's bullfight watched and dined together at the castle, near Nimes, where art was visiting a collector of Cubism Douglas Cooper (Douglas Cooper). «Often the day went to see Picasso's bullfighting us - says Richardson. - he treated us to dinner at a restaurant, and we, in turn, then arranged dinner in his honor and in honor of the matador and his assistants ».

Pablo Picasso continued to do until his death at the age of 91 years: only his legacy includes about 50,000 works of .

latest creative flight master in the second half of the 1960s, when he recovered from surgery on the stomach. By this time, Picasso was nearly ninety. "Most people in this age becomes disabled. For Picasso, it was the same call. During convalescence he read about Rembrandt and Goya. When he recovered, for it began a new life stage, and he continued to work actively, inspired by these great masters, "- says Richardson.

Picasso created during this period are large, bright, expressionistic paintings . On them he depicted a motley crowd of spectators of bullfighting XVII century, and bullfighters. Although Picasso himself gave up smoking after surgery, he often supplied the pipes characters of his paintings. During this period the artist created a number of graphic self-portrait. "Self-Portrait with a red eye, for me, so just awesome. This Picasso, gazing into the eyes of impending death, "- says Richardson.

Three-quarters of works by Picasso from the previous three exhibitions were given either temporarily or put up for sale the heirs of the artist, including his children and grandchildren, so that a huge part of the works has been submitted to the gallery for collectors is absolutely new. "Each of the seven Picasso heirs inherited a remarkable collection of his works," - said John Richardson, who is now completing work on a fourth volume biography of Picasso (the three previous three parts of his work "The Life of Picasso," went out in 1991, 1996 and 2007).
«Gagosian - a great marketer - believes Shteynhart Michael (Michael Steinhardt), head of the Hedge Fund WisdomTree Investments Inc, who acquired works by Picasso in 1980-90, respectively. - He scored in the market weight of the accumulating product and making it an excellent exhibition" .

Gagosian first exhibition dedicated to Picasso, called "The Musketeers" (the word he used to refer to representatives of the social bottom). The exposition, which included 53 paintings and 39 etchings by Picasso late 1960s and 70s, visited 100,000 people.

Pablo Picasso Nude on a background of green leaves and bust Source: bloomberg.com

already mentioned Shteynhart Michael admits that he underestimated the late Picasso. "I was suspicious of the market of late Picasso, but it turned out that I was wrong," - says collector who preferred to buy works by the artist 1920-30s.

Inspired by the success of the first exhibition, Gagosian Richardson and decided on the second, which is titled "Picasso: The Mediterranean years." It was the summer of 2010 in London. Richardson suggested the idea again: it seemed interesting to trace the influence on Picasso's Mediterranean: the artist was born in the coastal Spanish city of Malaga, and often lived on the French Riviera. participated in the exhibition paintings, sculptures and ceramics by Picasso 1945-1962 period. Topics works varied: the artist depicts the dancers and musicians, animals, much attention Gilot and their two children, Claude and Paloma, as well as his second wife Jacqueline Rock (Jacqueline Roque), whom he married in 1961. This exhibition was attended by over 60,000 people .

subject of the exhibition Picasso Gallery Gagosian were beloved portraits of artist Marie-Therese Walter (Marie-Therese Walter). Incidentally, it was one of the portraits of Walter now has a price record for sales at public auction : work "Nude on a background of green leaves and bust" was sold for 106.5 million dollars New York Christie's auction in May 2010.

Pablo Picasso Reclining Marie-Therese Source: bloomberg.com

Picasso met 17-year-old Walter in 1927 (when he was still married to the ballerina Olga Khokhlova). The next 13 years, from 1927 to 1940, they happily spent together, and during this time Picasso created his greatest works.

exhibition dedicated to the young Picasso Museum, opened in the gallery in April 2011. Nearly 90 works exhibited at the museum, which was attended by about 100 thousand people, rarely or never before exhibited.

in the preparation of the current, fourth, exhibitions, in addition to John Richardson, and involved herself Francoise Gilot. The exhibition will highlight works by Picasso in the years 1943-1953 - a time when Gilot and Picasso lived in Vallauris in a small house with a garden and raised two children - as long as she lived, the only all women by Picasso, has not left him. "I am very independent - says 90-year-old muse of legendary painter. - With this type of women he had never encountered».

In the future the exhibition you can admire the numerous portraits of Gilot in different, sometimes unexpected techniques, including portrait, created from terra-cotta tiles. Picasso depicted his mistress pregnant with a baby carriage, playing with children and a flower, so that exposure is expected to be extensive, varied and interesting. "Our exhibition will shed new light on a period that had previously not been studied in detail" - promises to John Richardson.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source: artinvestment.ru