until Sunday February 23 2020

Musée Picasso Paris
T : +33 (0)185 56 00 36.
5 rue de Thorigny
75003 Paris
France

www.museepicassoparis.fr/en/exhibition-picasso-magic-paintings/

Many of the paintings that Picasso did over a period of some four years (summer 1926-spring 1930) form a cohesive group, which Christian Zervos would later (1938) define as Tableaux magiques.

With these works principally figure paintings – Picasso opened a new chapter in his oeuvre, probing a deep emotional dimension, which anticipates the power of Guernica a decade later. This was accompanied by formal developments that are as radical as anything he had done before, including experimentation with materials and the realization of monumental sculptural ideas in paint.

The works in the show at Musée Picasso, from the 1rst of October to the 23rd of February 2020; will set not only in terms of the artist’s own development but, importantly, in the context of contemporary Surrealism and psychology (Jung vs Freud) and especially the interest among writers such as Leiris and Zervos on the magical powers ofs art.

Curators: Marilyn McCully, Michael Raeburn and Emilie Bouvard