The exposition tells about the flaming love and complex relationship of the famous Spanish artist and his first wife, the Russian ballet star Olga Khokhlova.
In October 2018 the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow will host an exhibition dedicated to one of the most enigmatic figures of world art of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso. The new art project will be the first experience in collaboration of the Moscow museum and the La Caixa Foundation, Spain.
The exhibition Pablo Picasso and Olga Khokhlova is implemented within the framework of a cooperation memorandum signed by the two organizations in February 15, 2017.
The upcoming exhibition will tell about the relationship between Pablo Picasso and his first wife, Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova. Visitors will see their love unfolding through the artist's eyes: portraits of the beloved impregnated with warmth gradually change their emotional colouring and turn into tragic surreal paintings.
The exhibition will be based on photographs that Olga Khokhlova sent to her relatives in Russia in the 1920s. These will be complementary to Pablo Picasso's paintings and graphic art works kept at the Picasso Museum in Paris, other foreign galleries and private collections.
Author: Vera Ivanova