Major Picasso Exhibition Coming to Toronto

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The Art Gallery of Ontario will present a major exhibition, Picasso: Painting the Blue Period, from June 27 to Sept. 20, organized with The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. 

Picasso’s Blue Period, from 1901 to 1904, is one of the most celebrated episodes of the artist’s career.

Absorbing the artistic lessons of the French avant-garde during his second visit to Paris in 1901 before confronting an economically struggling Barcelona in 1902 to 1904, Picasso created paintings, sculptures and works on paper. 

Curated by Susan Behrends Frank of The Phillips Collection and Kenneth Brummel, the AGO’s associate curator of modern art, the show will include approximately 65 works by Picasso, as well as works by other artists the young Spaniard would have known and studied.

The show marks the culmination of an international research project on the AGO’s two Blue Period paintings, profiled in 2017 in The New York Times, The Art Newspaper and The Guardian. 

An illustrated catalogue will be published in association with Prestel/Delmonico.

Source: Art Gallery of Ontario