After its premier at The Dali, the exhibit will be on display at the Museu Picasso, Barcelona from March 19-June 28, 2015.
Arguably the two most influential 20th century Spanish artists, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali, come together this fall in this landmark exhibition at The Dali Museum in downtown St. Petersburg, FL. Organized by The Dali and the Museu Picasso, Barcelona with the collaboration of the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dali, “Picasso/Dali, Dali/Picasso” runs through February 16, 2015.
The exhibit features rarely loaned works from more than 20 international museums and collectors worldwide. There are over 90 works in the exhibit including a large assortment of paintings, as well as drawings, prints and sculpture plus archival documents such as postcards from Dali to Picasso.
“This Picasso exhibition offers the possibility of rereading the relationship between two key figures of twentieth-century art and exploring new interpretations of the period in which their lives and works intersected,” explained Dali Museum Director Dr. Hank Hine. “We are honored to collaborate with Barcelona’s Museu Picasso and our enduring partners at the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dali.”
“Surprisingly, this is a part of history that has not been told before,” said Museu Picasso’s Director Bernardo Laniado-Romero. “As this exhibition will show, their fertile rapport produced some outstanding and crucial artworks for modern times.”
The exhibit sheds light on the more than 30-year relationship and interactions between these two Spanish-born artists, and highlights the similarities in their artistic evolution. In the spring of 1926, Dali took his first trip to Paris and visited Picasso in his studio as he prepared for his summer exhibition at Paul Rosenberg. After returning to Spain, Dali set to work on an important group of paintings which reflected this encounter and marked a transition to artistic maturity. Throughout the following years and through the 1940’s, the artists went through various phases, including delving into their well-known periods of Surrealism and Cubism; they also both created works portraying the human aguish and conflict in response to the Spanish civil war. Their art converged in a way that was inspired by the great art of the past, in particular, their mutual admiration of the 17th century Spanish Golden Age painter Diego Velázquez. It was through this inspiration that they dealt with the history of art’s grandest aspirations and their own yearning for artistic achievement.
This will be the second “blockbuster” exhibit in the new Dali Museum building following the Andy Warhol exhibit, which set the tone for record visitation. Dali Museum Marketing Director Kathy Greif commented “Visitation during the Warhol show was up more than 40% versus the same period last year, and we anticipate the Picasso/Dali show will draw an even larger crowd. Record numbers aren’t just a marketer’s dream – it’s key to our mission to serve as an active resource in the cultural life of our community; we couldn’t be more proud to provide access to these rare and influential works.”
From an excellent WSJ review:
About The Dali Museum
’Portrait of Pablo Picasso in the Twenty-first Century’ (1947) by Salvador Dalí. SALVADOR DALÍ/FUNDACIÓN GALA-SALVADOR DALÍ/ARS
...Dalí’s lifelong admiration was barbed with competition. Twenty-one years after meeting Picasso, Dalí painted “Portrait of Pablo Picasso in the Twenty-first Century,” a masterpiece of Dalí’s mature art that hangs at the end of the exhibition and sums up their problematic relationship. The painting is a direct assault on Picasso’s reputation as well as the permanence of artistic stature. Dalí used his remarkable hyper-realism to create a deeply contradictory portrait. Mocking Picasso’s prestige by showing him as an antique bust covered in melting flesh, Dalí nonetheless evoked his genius by showing liquid metal flowing through Picasso’s head to shape an attenuated spoon, which encloses one of Picasso’s signature and most polymorphous subjects—the guitar....
The Dali Museum, located in the heart of beautiful downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, is home to an unparalleled collection of Salvador Dali art, featuring more than 2,000 works comprising nearly 100 oil paintings; over 100 watercolors and drawings; and 1,300 prints, photographs, sculptures and objets d’art.
The building is itself a work of art, featuring 1,062 triangular-shaped glass panels – the only structure of its kind in North America. Nicknamed the Enigma, it provides an unprecedented view of St. Petersburg’s picturesque waterfront. The Museum has attracted the world’s attention, and among the other distinguished awards it has received, it was listed by AOL Travel News as “one of the top buildings to see in your lifetime.”
The Dali Museum is located at One Dali Boulevard, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701. For additional information contact 727-823-3767 or visit TheDali.org.
About the Museu Picasso
The Museu Picasso is perhaps the most visible sign of the artist’s emotional attachment to Barcelona. The collection, which has grown up to 4,251 works owes its singular character to the generosity of countless benefactors; it is not fortuitous that many of these donors, besides Picasso himself, were his family and friends.
Picasso’s museum in Barcelona is the place of reference where to explore the artist’s formative years and understand some of the experimentation that was integral in the development of his oeuvre. In addition, enormously significant are the 57 paintings that shape his personal interpretation of Velázquez’s Las Meninas. This highly unique collection is housed in a series of five gothic palaces in the midst of the Born, one of the historic neighborhoods in Barcelona, Spain.
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Apparatus and Hand, 1927
Salvador Dalí
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Museum, Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, 2014. ©2014
Estate of Pablo Picasso / ARS, NY. This exhibition
was organized by The Dalí Museum and the Museu
Picasso, Barcelona, with the collaboration of the
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí and is supported by an
indemnity from the U.S. Federal Council on the Arts
and the Humanities.
Study for ‘Premonition of the Civil War’, 1935
Salvador Dalí
© Salvador Dalí. Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí,
[Artist Rights Society (ARS)], 2014. Collection of
The Dalí Museum, Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, 2014.
This exhibition was organized by The Dalí Museum
and the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, with the
collaboration of the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí
and is supported by an indemnity from the U.S.
Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
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image “Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina
Sofia”
Study for Weeping Head. Sketch for Guernica,
1937
Pablo Picasso
© 2014 Estate of Pablo Picasso / ARS, NY. This
exhibition was organized by The Dalí Museum and
the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, with the
collaboration of the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí
and is supported by an indemnity from the U.S.
Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Note: Also print alongside the reproduction of
the image “Museo Nacional Centro de Arte
Reina Sofia”
Self Portrait, 1921
Salvador Dalí
© Salvador Dalí. Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, [Arti
st
Rights Society (ARS)], 2014. Collection of The Dalí
Museum, Inc., St. Petersburg, FL, 2014. This
exhibition was organized by The Dalí Museum and
the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, with the
collaboration of the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí an
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is supported by an indemnity from the U.S. Federal
Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Self Portrait with wig, 1897
Pablo Picasso
© 2014 Estate of Pablo Picasso / ARS, NY. This
exhibition was organized by The Dalí Museum and
the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, with the
collaboration of the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí
and is supported by an indemnity from the U.S.
Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
