Picasso Black and White at Guggenheim Museum marks the first major exhibition in the United States to focus on the recurrent motif of black and white throughout Pablo Picasso's career.
Surveying the Spanish master's oeuvre from 1904 to 1971,Picasso Black and White examines the artist's lifelong exploration of a black-and-white palette through approximately 110 paintings,sculptures,and works on paper.
The exhibition thematically traces the artist's unique vision throughout his whole body of work,including early monochromatic blue and rose paintings,gray-toned Cubist canvases,elegant and austere neoclassical portraits and nudes,Surrealist-inspired figures,forceful and somber scenes depicting the atrocities of war,allegorical still lives,vivid interpretations of art-historical masterpieces,and the electric,highly sexualized canvases of Picasso's last years.
Picasso Black and White will include significant loans drawn from private collections,including many from the Picasso family and estate;from museums across Europe and the United States;and from numerous public and private European and American collections,many of which have not been exhibited or published before.
