Picasso – Suite Vollard Engravings in Istanbul

February 23, 2010 at 6:28 pm · Filed under Art, Go Istanbul, Istanbul Trip, Museum and tagged: Chaos, different mythological, Erotic, Foundation Mapfre, Istanbul ECOC 2010, Istanbul Modern Art, Istanbul walking, Love, Mapfre, model, Museum, nudity, Pera Museum, Picasso, Picasso’s loves, portraiture, Sculpture, Suite Vollard

Picasso – Suite Vollard Engravings exhibition  presents from 16 February to 18 April 2010 in the PERA Museum renowned Spanish artist Pablo Picasso’s most important engraving series from the first half of the 20th century.

The engravings were a result of the collaboration between Picasso and his close friend, an ardent admirer of his work, an extraordinary editor and also a famous art dealer of the period, Ambroise Vollard.

Picasso’s loves, the model and the sculptor, nudity, portraiture and different mythological themes appear in these engravings where not only the topics but also the style and the technique provide insight into the artist’s creative universe of the time, the 1930s; when he was at the height of his artistic production.

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