Picasso is coming to SAM: Oct 8 – Jan 7
More than 150 Pablo Picasso masterpieces are coming to Seattle. The works in this exhibition come from his personal collection—works of art the highly self-aware artist kept for himself with the intent of shaping his own artistic legacy.
Drawn from the collection of the Musée National Picasso in Paris—the largest and most important repository of the artist’s work in the world—the exhibition will feature work representing every major period from the artist’s prolific output over eight decades.
Walking through the exhibit will be like paging through a fully illustrated biography on the Spaniard. There’s La Celestina (1904) from Picasso’s introspective Blue Period, completed in the shadow of a close friend’s suicide; The Weeping Woman (1937), depicting longtime lover Dora Maar who Picasso said was always in tears; self-portrait The Matador (1970); plus a range of sculptures, photographs, and prints.
