Gilden’s Art Gallery is delighted to present our exhibition dedicated to one of the greatest artists of the Twentieth Century – Pablo Picasso.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the artist’s passing and throughout 2023 many institutions and galleries have revisited this master printmaker to engage a new generation with the groundbreaking and iconic imagery of Picasso.
The spectacular, ‘Composite Figure I, 1949’, is a magnificent highlight of this exhibition belonging to an intense series of close-up female portraits executed in black ink across the full sheet. This work echoes Picasso’s earlier cubist style, but is presented in a bold new manner.
In terms of the Picasso’s mastery of the linocut medium, ‘The Lady with a Collar, 1962’, is an exceptional example of the reductionist technique. It demonstrates Picasso’s link and indeed desire to be aligned in the long lineage of ‘Spanish Masters’; the collared lady is in fact a portrait of Jacqueline Roque.
The exhibition will open on Thursday 28th September in our Hampstead gallery and a small selection of highlights will also travel to Munich, New York, and Miami over the course of the show.
