Events Around the World

from Coldwell Banker West | Luxury Living Magazine, August 2023

Paul Smith’s Playful Picasso Exhibition Highlights Celebration

Celebration Picasso kicked off last year with a dual announcement from the French and Spanish Culture Ministers in front of the anti-war masterpiece Guernica at Madrid’s Reina Sofía Museum. It wraps up in early 2024. In between, exhibitions will be held throughout Europe and North America. The following is a selected list of those events.

Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds

Cincinnati Art Museum

Cincinnati, OH.

June 24 to October 11, 2023

See more than 45 of Picasso’s landscape paintings, a genre he explored throughout his career, from his art school days at 15 years old to just before his death.

Picasso 1906: La Gran Transformación

Museo Reina Sofia

Madrid, Spain

November 14 to March 4, 2024

This exhibition examines how Picasso contributed to the advancement of modern art as a pioneer of Cubism. Picasso’s time in the Catalonian village of Gosol in 1906 marked a period of optimism and evolution — hence, the “transformation.” This was especially compelling as it came on the heels of his highly symbolic Blue and Rose Period artworks.

Picasso Escultor: Materia y Cuerpo

Museo Picasso Málaga

Málaga, Spain

May 8 to September 9, 2023

Museo Guggenheim Bilbao

Bilbao, Spain

September 29 to

January 14, 2024

Picasso may be most well-known for his paintings, but he also crafted around 700 sculptures focused on the human body. Several of them will be on display during this exhibition, which is devoted to his sculptural artworks.

Formes et Métamorphoses: The Ceramic Creation of Picasso

Magnelli Museum, Museum of Ceramics

Vallauris, France

May 6 to October 30, 2023

The largest-ever exhibition of Picasso’s drawings, this retrospective traces the artist’s entire career. More than 2,000 drawings and prints — some unpublished — will be shown, including early sketches of some of his most recognized and lauded work.