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Major Picasso exhibit to open in New York City
The expansive Picasso exhibit, starting April 27, will be a first for the museum. It will include “The Actor,” which underwent conservation after being accidentally damaged at the Met in January.
In preparation, conservators used X-rays and infrared reflectography to closely examine all of the museum’s Picasso paintings and discovered that he more frequently painted over other paintings than originally thought, said exhibition curator Gary Tinterow. The practice, known to art specialists, is not widely familiar to the public.
All the compositions in the exhibition “show traces of revision and correction,” he said. Some have earlier works by Picasso underneath while others are painted over the works of other artists.
The Met exhibition, comprising 34 paintings, 58 drawings and 12 sculptures and ceramics, represents every period of Picasso’s long career -- from his self-portrait “Yo,” made when he was 19 years old to “Standing Nude and Seated Musketeer” when he was 87. Highlights also include the famous 1906 portrait of Gertrude Stein, which was a bequest from the American writer in 1946 and the Met’s first Picasso acquisition.
Hundreds of Picasso’s works on paper, which have rarely, if ever, been shown at the museum, will be part of the exhibit. And a video of nine Picasso paintings will demonstrate how the artist revised his compositions, styles and themes in reworking specific paintings.
The exhibition could help draw even more attention to Christie’s and Sotheby’s sales. The two paintings have an impeccable provenance, one belonging to President John F. Kennedy’s sister, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, and the other to California art patron Frances Lasker Brody.
“Nude, Green Leaves and Bust,” a striking 1932 painting of Picasso’s mistress Marie-Therese Walker, is estimated to bring $70 million to $90 million at Christie’s on May 4. Exhibited only once in the United States in 1961 and coming on the heels of the Met’s exhibition, the work could potentially go even higher.
At its May 5 sale, Sotheby’s is offering “Femme au Chapeau, Buste,” a 1965 work inspired by Jacqueline Roque, the last love of Picasso’s life. It hung for 50 years in the Manhattan apartment of Patricia Kennedy Lawford and is estimated to sell for $8 million to $12 million. The “work was not public knowledge until we recently published our catalog,” said Emmanuel Di-Donna, vice chairman of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art. The current record for a work by Picasso is $104.17 million for “Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice),” attained in 2004 at Sotheby’s New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art declined to say if it was interested in buying the works.
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