Picasso: Love & War 1935-1945
What:
Picasso: Love & War 1935-1945
Where:
NGV International, 180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
When:
June 30-Oct 8
Wed-Mon 10-5, closed Tuesdays
How much:
$20 full, $16 concession, $15 NGV members, pre-book through Ticketmaster
Contact:
The NGV
She cut herself, and he liked it. The great Spaniard Pablo Picasso is renown for his bright cubist masterpieces, but from 1935-1945 his world was steeped in the dark romance of a figure called Dora Maar.
A photographer, revered beauty and self-mutilator, Maar was Picasso’s lover in pre-war Paris. Her intense sadness and psychological apathy inspired some of his most suggestive drawings, prints and paintings. She was his ‘Weeping Woman’, she was by his side as he painted the ‘Guernica’, and they were together as Paris became a Nazi stronghold before WWII, an occurrence that gave birth to many of Picasso’s disturbing still-life compositions.
The NGV doesn’t usually do things on a small scale and Picasso: Love & War 1935-1945 is no exception. The exhibition features over 350 of Picasso’s works and accompanying photographs by Maar, including the ‘Guernica’, which won’t be shown anywhere else outside of Paris. If that isn’t incentive enough, we have some free passes to give away, just click here.
Medium: Mixed
Drink: Bottle of red
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