Picasso Discovers Paris

The Museu Picasso of Barcelona will exhibit Impressionist and Symbolist pieces from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. These works will enable the public to fully appreciate the impact his first two visits to Paris had on young Picasso.

In the middle of September, the Museu Picasso will open an exhibition featuring work by Bartholomé, Carrière, Delacroix, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Capiello, Degas, Cézanne, Steinlen and Gauguin, amongst others, all coming from the permanent collection of the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée national Picasso Paris. The exhibit, entitled Picasso Discovers Paris.

The exhibition is the result of the exchange of works on loan from the Museu Picasso for the exhibit Picasso bleu et rose, to be held at Paris’ Musée d’Orsay, organized by the Musée national Picasso in Paris. This show puts the accent on Picasso’s admiration for various artists in the Paris scene at the very start of the 20th century.

The selection of work has been made on the basis of the review written by Felicien Fagus on the occasion of an exhibition at Galerie Vollard, which was published in Revue Blanche on 15 July 1901, and it also includes the works by Picasso with references to other artists. Picasso had seen these artists’ works in person for the first time in Paris, and they are here related to pieces from the Museu Picasso collection.