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Picasso and Jaume Sabartés in an image dating from 1959

Two new temporary exhibitions at the Picasso Museum

One features works from the Gustau Gili and Anna Maria Torra collection, while the other deals with the painter's relationship with his friend and biographer Jaume Sabartés.

Two new temporary exhibitions can now be visited at the Picasso Museum, one of the most visited museums in the city. From 23 November, visitors to the venue will find Sabartés by Picasso by Sabartés and Pablo Picasso and the Publishers Gustavo Gili, as well, of course, as the museum’s permanent collection.


This will be the first time that the works from the Gustau Gili and Anna Maria Torra collections, which were acquired by the museum in 2014, will be exhibited. It consists of works and documents that highlight the relationship between Picasso and two generations of publishers at Gustavo Gili. The people responsible for the exhibition highlight the fact that the archive on display is “of great importance, as it provides us with essential information on the relationship between Picasso and Barcelona, especially during the second half of the 20th century, the final decades of the artist’s life”. Claustre Rafart, the curator of the Picasso Museum, is also the curator of this exhibition.

 Jaume Sabartés, the focus of the second exhibition, was a close friend and confident of Picasso, and founded the Picasso Museum in Barcelona with him. 13 February last year saw 50 years since his death. Visitors to the exhibition will find 20 texts on Picasso by Sabartés, who made public a number of otherwise unknown facets of the artist, and a selection of portraits of Sabartés by Picasso. The exhibition, which is curated by Margarita Cortadella, head of the Picasso Museum Library, and Emmanuel Guigon, director of the Museum, is complemented by numerous photographs, documents and personal objects, as well as examples of correspondence between the two men.

Additional information is available at the following link.

Publication date: Wednesday, 14 November 2018
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