The Museu Picasso Barcelona is currently exhibiting nineteen of Pablo Picasso's sketchbooks, offering a rare glimpse into the artist's creative process. These sketchbooks are part of a larger collection of 175 known sketchbooks that Picasso filled with drawings between 1894 and his death in 1973.
The sketchbooks provide an intimate view of Picasso's working methods and the evolution of his ideas. They trace the development of his observations and concepts into plans for paintings and sculptures. The drawings in these sketchbooks span nearly every period of Picasso's prolific career, from his early experimentations in Spain and France around 1900 through his revolutionary developments in later years.Some highlights from the sketchbooks include:
Preparatory sketches for iconic works like Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Dora Maar in an Armchair (1939)
Studies for the large-scale War and Peace murals completed in 1952
Pages of poetry written by Picasso in both Spanish and French
Self-portraits, like one from summer-autumn 1918
The sketchbooks reveal Picasso's obsessive nature and sometimes provocative subject matter. For example, one series shows the artist reproducing the same erotic scene 17 times on a single day in October 1964.These facsimiles provide unprecedented access to Picasso's creative process, showing how he would methodically explore ideas through repeated sketches before executing final paintings. As gallery owner Jean-Louis Manuel notes, "It is often said that Picasso made dozens and dozens of paintings every day, but this shows that, before making a painting, he trained, he thought..." The exhibition of Picasso's sketchbooks offers a unique opportunity to see the inner workings of one of the 20th century's most influential artists, providing insight into his techniques, obsessions, and the evolution of his iconic style over decades. video:
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