Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition

The Frick Collection (New York, USA) presents an exhibition of more than sixty  Picasso's drawings (works in pencil, ink, watercolor, gouache, pastel, and chalk) spanning the first thirty years of the artist career, from his first signed drawing to works from the early 1920s.

During these same years, museum founder Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) was acquiring masterpieces from the early Renaissance through the end of the nineteenth century. Frick and Picasso shared an appreciation of the same artistic heritage, the former as collector, the latter as creator. An innovator who both challenged and continued the grand European tradition celebrated at the Frick, Picasso belongs to the Collection as its most irrepressible offspring, although not actually represented in its holdings. The many references to the works of El Greco, Goya, Ingres, Renoir and others that run through his drawings link them indirectly with the museum’s permanent holdings, while the sheets exude the radical new spirit of the early twentieth century.

Pablo Picasso was one of the world's greatest draftsmen. Drawing was his primary medium for thinking, problem solving, invention, and personal expression. It was the link that connected his work in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, theater design, and ceramics, and was a direct tie to his predecessors.

Date: until January 8.
Location: The Frick Collection. 1 East 70th Street, near Fifth Avenue. New York,USA.
Opening hours: from Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 6pm. Sundays from 11am to 5pm.

See some of the drawings in thet following slideshow: