Musée Picasso, Paris.
The exhibition "Picasso's Cubism" will be held at the Picasso Museum in Paris from 19 September 2007 until 7 January 2008. Organised by the museum to mark the hundredth anniversary of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907, (national celebrations in 2007), the exhibition seeks to take stock of all Picasso's Cubist work in the period 1906-1925. Indeed, Picasso consistently claimed the term "Cubist" for his work in the first two decades of the century.
The term covers a rich corpus of works and extremely radical artistic innovations which began with research during the summer he spent at Gosol in 1906. The "negro period" (1907-1908), aspects of Cubism labelled "Cezannian", "Byzantine" (1909), "hermetic", "synthetic" (1910-1912) and the various "rococo", "decorative" (1914-1917), and "post-Cubist" repercussions in 1921-25 form an interrupted chain in the Cubist revolution.
Studies of Picasso's archives, scholarly international publications and the many exhibitions on some aspect or theme of the artist's work in recent decades allow us to take stock today. Putting the accent on the coherence of his work over time and emphasising its major constructive and stylistic articulations, this exhibition gathers the great masterpieces of Picasso's Cubism around the collections in the Musée Picasso.
