Travel Pick: Art and Archaeology in Spain
Picasso: Tradition and Avant-garde

Picasso. Tradition and Avant-garde, is a major retrospective of the work of the Spanish artis. It comprises a survey of more than 50 masterpieces created over the course Picasso’s long and active career, which will be shown divided between the principal galleries of Spain’s two leading national museums. Every stage of Picasso’s career is represented, allowing for an overview of the most important phases within his oeuvre; from the Blue and Pink periods, to Cubism, the return to order in the 1920s, his relations with the Surrealist movement, the difficult years between the Spanish Civil War and World War II, up to the fertile last decades.

The exhibition starts in the Prado, whose Central Gallery houses a group of masterpieces by Picasso, flanked by a special selection of works by Spanish Old Masters represented in its collections.

In the Reina Sofía the exhibition takes on a monographic character focused around the Guernica and its legacy, now seen alongside other works of significance for Picasso’s artistic response to the dramatic circumstances of modern warfare, such as The Charnel House (1945), Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Massacre in Korea (1951), Musée Picasso, Paris.