Disseny Hub Barcelona has taken the opportunity provided by the closure of the Museum of Ceramics to loan these works, which will provide an attractive addition to the permanent collection in Antibes
In the year commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the death of Picasso, an exhibition devoted to Spanish Ceramics is to open at the Picasso Museum of Antibes, organised by its director, Jean-Louis Andral. For this show, the Picasso Museum of Antibes has requested the temporary loan of five works by Picasso from the collections of the Museum of Ceramics of Barcelona. These works are on five of Picasso’s favourite themes: the painter and the model; a circus scene; a Provence landscape; a fish; and a tarasque, inspired by an Etruscan bucchero nero.
Disseny Hub Barcelona has taken the opportunity provided by the closure of the Museum of Ceramics to loan these works, which will provide an attractive addition to the permanent collection in Antibes, as well as making the Barcelona museum’s collection – which includes seventeen unique works by Picasso, donated by the artist in summer 1957 – more widely known.
The collections of the Picasso Museum of Antibes include an important series of seventy-seven ceramic pieces made by the Spanish artist at the Madoura workshop in Vallauris from 1947 to 1949: painted sculptures (bulls, goats and owls); fired paintings featuring still life, fauns and naked figures; and Tanagra figurines, demonstrating Picasso’s creative, transformative genius.
The Museum of Antibes will close the art route that will begin at the Grimaldi Forum in Monte-Carlo with the exhibition “Picasso and the Côte d’Azur, 1920-1946” by presenting a show devoted to works produced by the artist after World War Two. This exhibition will be open throughout the year.
