Picasso “returns” to Italy one hundred years later

In February 1917, Europe was immersed in the 1st World War. Pablo Picasso was 36 years old then, but was already a great artist who had started the Cubism revolution.

It was at this time that he arrived in Italy for the very first time. And he returned one hundred years later, from 22nd September 2017 and 21st January 2018, to star in the exhibition ‘Picasso, Tra Cubismo e Classicismo 1915-1925’ (Picasso, between Cubism and Classicism 1915-1925)at the Scuderie del Quirinale museum in Rome. 

The exhibition illustrated the experiments made by Picasso with different styles and genres: from playing with decorative surfaces in collages made during the Great War, to the stylised realism of the Diaghilev years, from dead nature to portraits. 

Thanks to the collaboration of Abertis, curator Olivier Berggruen was able to select a hundred works from different sources: from the Musée Picasso and the Pompidou Centre in Paris to the Tate in London; from the MoMa and the Metropolitan Museum of New York to the Berggruen Museum in Berlin, from the Picasso Museum Foundation in Barcelona to the Guggenheim in New York.