Arts & Culture

Picasso: Encounters At The Clark

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Sarah LaDuke

Published August 21, 2017 at 11:35 AM EDT

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Still Life with Glass Under the Lamp, 1962. Linoleum cut on paper, sheet: 24 1/2 x 29 5/8 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kramer Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kramer, 1979, 1979.620.90

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Minotauromachia, 1935 (printed 1936). Etching and engraving on paper, sheet: 22 1/4 x 30 in. Private Collection

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The Dove, 1949. Lithograph printed from a zinc plate on paper, sheet: 22 x 30 in. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gift of the Philadelphia Water Color Club, 1950, 1950.7.1

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Portrait of Dora Maar, 1937. Oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 25 5/8 in. Musée national Picasso-Paris, Paris. Pablo Picasso, 1979, MP158. Photo: Mathieu Rabeau © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY";

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Jacqueline Knitting, 1954. Oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 21 5/8 in. Private Collection

Picasso: Encounters has been on view exclusively at The Clark Art Institute this summer and will close this coming Sunday, August 27.

The exhibition estigates how Pablo Picasso’s creative collaborations fueled and strengthened his art, challenging the notion of Picasso as an artist alone with his craft. The exhibition addresses his full stylistic range, the narrative themes that drove his creative process, the often-neglected issue of the collaboration inherent in print production, and the muses that inspired him.

We spoke about the exhibition with Jay Clarke - the Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.