Picasso’s greatest works of art are being brought together for a “once in a lifetime” exhibition in London and Paris that will take visitors through a pivotal year in the artist’s life.
The display, Picasso 1932, is being staged as a collaboration between the Musée National-Picasso in Paris and Tate Modern, which said it would be a landmark exhibition and “one of the most significant shows the gallery has ever staged”.
More than 100 works will be exhibited, including the famous Le Rêve (The Dream), an erotic, desire-filled painting of Picasso’s young lover Marie-Thérèse Walter which was reported to have been bought in 2013 by the collector and hedge fund manager Steven A Cohen and has never been shown in the UK.
Also being loaned is Jeune Fille Devant un Miroir (Girl Before a Mirror), a jewel in the collection of Moma in New York that rarely travels.
It will be the first solo exhibition of Picasso’s work to be held in Tate Modern.
Achim Borchardt-Hume, the gallery’s director of exhibitions and co-curator of the 2018 show, said the challenge facing curators was: “How can you get close to Picasso as an artist and a person? How can you get beyond the myth?”
Their answer was to focus on one period in Picasso’s long life. They chose 1932, a time called Picasso’s “year of wonders”.
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