Picasso 1932

Exhibition at the Musée Picasso, Paris, 10 October 2017 - 11 February 2018 ;
at the Tate Modern, London, 8 March - 9 September 2018

This exhibition catalogue in the form of an ephemeris retraces day by day, thanks to meticulous research, the whole of 1932, a particularly fruitful year in Picasso's life and work. Painting, drawing, engraving, photography, sculpture, writing, Picasso opened his practice to all fields of art, exploring the formal freedom of surrealism or the erotic representations of Marie-Thérèse Walter.

The year 1932 also marked a moment of consecration, with his first personal retrospective at the Galeries Georges Petit in Paris in June and his first major exhibition in a museum, at the Kunsthaus in Zurich, in September. These were two fundamental exhibitions, whose media reception contributed to the creation of the Picasso myth. 1932 seemed an enchanted interlude before the major crises in the artist's life and in the world.