Patrons breakfast preview: Picasso and Paper
Thursday 23 January 2020 8.45 - 10am
Main Galleries, Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts
Free for Patrons, booking required.
Picasso and Paper
We invite Patrons to join us for breakfast and a curator-led tour at a special preview of ‘Picasso and Paper’.
This is an opportunity for Patrons to see the exhibition ahead of the public opening, accompanied by a breakfast in the Academician's Room and a curator-led tour of the exhibition.
This ground-breaking exhibition charts Picasso’s ingenious use of this universal material. Spanning his entire 80-year career, it offers new insights into his creative spirit and working methods. Highlights include Women at Their Toilette (1937-8), a 4.8 metre-wide collage that will be shown in the UK for the first time in over 50 years. There will also be Cubist papier-collés (cut and pasted papers), sketchbook studies for his great masterpiece, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, and documentary footage that offers a rare glimpse of Picasso at work.
Alongside a select number of key paintings and sculptures, we reveal how paper allowed Picasso to push the boundaries of thought and practice; inventing a whole universe of art as he went.
Exhibition organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London and the Cleveland Museum of Art in partnership with the Musée national Picasso-Paris.