1932 was an intensely creative period in the life of the 20th century’s most influential artist.
This is the first ever solo Pablo Picasso exhibition at Tate Modern. It will bring you face-to-face with more than 100 paintings, sculptures and drawings, mixed with family photographs and rare glimpses into his personal life.
The myths around Picasso are stripped away to reveal the man and the artist in his full complexity and richness. You will see him as never before.
1932, Picasso's 'year of wonder', proves to be a great hook on which to hang Picasso 1932 - Love, Fame, Tragedy, a brilliant blockbuster of an exhibition at Tate Modern, the first the gallery has ever staged on the Spanish artist.
It begins with two paintings completed on Christmas Day 1931, one symbolising his love affair with Marie-Therese Walter, the subject of so many of these curvaceous, beguiling paintings. Though hung chronologically, taking us on a month-by-month journey, themes of 'love', 'fame' and 'tragedy' are fleshed out.
In a room painted deep burgundy red, family portraits at the heart of Picasso's Paris retrospective are reunited for the first time in 86 years. As the year draws to a close, and the threat of another world war looms, themes of drowning and sexual violence appear and the darker subject matter hints that tragedy is not far away.
Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy. Tate Modern, 8 MARCH – 9 SEPTEMBER 2018.
