Pablo Picasso “Picasso & Jacqueline: The Evolution of Style”
The Pace Gallery (534 W 25th St)
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Pace Gallery in New York presents its eighth exhibition of the work of Pablo Picasso with Picasso & Jacqueline: The Evolution of Style. The exhibition features nearly 140 works on loan from major international private and public collections, including the Picasso family and estate of Jacqueline Roque, many of which are on view to the public for the first time. This exhibition is the first to examine Picasso’s late transformation in style as seen exclusively through the portraits of Jacqueline, and includes paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and ceramics, all depicting Jacqueline in a myriad of ways—from odalisque to bride—that immortalize her arresting beauty.
The exhibition begins in 1954 when the 73-year old Picasso started courting the 27-year old Jacqueline. That year also marked the death of Matisse, an early rival and later friend of Picasso, who had been the only living artist that Picasso considered his equal. In an unprecedented burst of creativity, Picasso created a wide range of works spanning multiple mediums depicting odalisques in homage to Matisse. It was also during this period that Picasso began to model Jacqueline in his reworkings of French and Spanish masters like Velázquez, Delacroix, and Manet.
Accompanying the exhibition and complementing the works on view is a group of more than 50 photographs by David Douglas Duncan, a confidant of Picasso, who captured the artist at work and during private moments with Jacqueline. Of Jacqueline, Duncan said, she “often appeared to be stepping out of one canvas into another of herself.”
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from October 31, 2014 to January 10, 2015