Picasso the Foreigner
20th September 2024 - 2nd February 2025

Picasso the Foreigner presents more than 90 works of the artist, as well as documents, photographs, letters and videos, and offers a new and bold interpretation of the artist, which addresses urgent issues of our present.

Picasso has been written about everything, it seems. No other artist has aroused so many debates, controversies and passions. But how many people know what obstacles the young genius had to face when he first arrived in Paris, in 1900, without speaking a word of French? In 1901 he was registered as an anarchist under special supervision, before settling permanently in Paris in 1904, where he became the leader of the cubist avant-garde. During the civil war in Spain, the artist produced Guernica, the immense canvas destined to become the universal banner of the anti-fascist resistance. In 1940, fearing he was in danger in France, where the Nazi invasion was imminent, Picasso decided to apply for naturalization, which was refused.

But how did he manage to impose his aesthetic revolutions in a century marked by great political turbulence, in a world torn apart by nationalism of all kinds?

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In Milan, all eyes on Pablo Picasso
Racconti da MArte
From France to Milan and back.
The words of Domenico Piraina, Annie Cohen-Solal and Cécile Debray, respectively director of Palazzo Reale, author of the book Picasso. A Foreigner’s Life and scientific curator of the exhibition project, special curator of the exhibition and president of the Musée National Picasso-Paris, move along this geographical route. Here is what they told us.

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