Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds

June 23–October 15, 2023

Western & Southern Galleries (Galleries 232 and 233)
Ticketed. Free for Members.
Friends of European Painting, Sculpture, and Drawings
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See the exhibition for free on Thursday nights from 5–8 p.m., thanks to presenting sponsor Duke Energy, and during Art After Dark on June 30, July 28, August 25, and September 29 from 5–9 p.m. Timed tickets are only available at the front desk starting at 4:30 p.m. on these evenings. See the FAQ below for more details.

The exhibition’s free opening weekend was made possible by presenting sponsor Duke Energy.

The year 2023 marks the 50^th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), perhaps the most innovative and influential artist of the 20^th century. The Cincinnati Art Museum is celebrating his legacy with an unprecedented exhibition, the first to examine Picasso’s lifelong engagement with landscape. Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds brings to our galleries paintings and sculptures by the artist from some 25 public and private collections across the United States and Europe.

Picasso used landscape throughout his life to establish himself in new surroundings and to push forward into new styles of painting and sculpture. Picasso Landscapes: Out of Bounds traces the elemental role of place, environment, and interface between humanity and the natural world in his art. Through representations of landscape, Picasso advanced dialogues with key artists of the previous centuries, from Nicolas Poussin to Paul Cézanne, embedding himself within the European painting tradition, while insisting on a status apart.

Conceived by leading Picasso scholar Laurence Madeline, organized by the American Federation of Arts, and presented at The Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC) and the Cincinnati Art Museum, this is the first exhibition to comprehensively present Picasso’s fertile engagement with landscape over his 75-year career.

This exhibition is organized by the American Federation of Arts with guest curator Laurence Madeline and the exceptional support of the Musée national Picasso-Paris.

The exhibition is generously supported by Monique Schoen Warshaw. Additional support has been provided by Betsy S. Barbanell, Lee White Galvis, Clare E. McKeon, and Stephanie R. La Nasa. Support for the accompanying publication provided by Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund.

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50 exhibitions and events to celebrate Picasso

2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death and thus places the year under the sign of the celebration of his work in France, Spain and internationally. To celebrate Picasso’s legacy today is a way to question what this major work for western modernity represents today. It is to show its living, accessible and current part.

The Picasso Celebration 1973-2023 is initiated by the Musée national Picasso-Paris, main lender of the event and coordinator, and Bernard Picasso, grandson of the artist and president of the FABA and the Picasso Museum in Malaga. It is structured around some fifty exhibitions and events to be held in renowned cultural institutions in Europe and North America, which, together, thanks to new interpretations and approaches, will make it possible to review the state of studies and understanding of Picasso’s work.

Through a French-Spanish binational commission, the French and Spanish governments have decided to work together on this major transnational event, and the commemoration will be punctuated by official celebrations in France and Spain and will end with a major international symposium in the autumn of 2023, at the time of the opening of the Picasso Study Centre in Paris.

It is a "Picasso today" which embodies this Celebration and which lays the foundations for the Musée national Picasso-Paris of tomorrow.

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