Pablo Picasso: Still Life

FABA is pleased to present 'Pablo Picasso: Still Life,' in collaboration with Almine Rech New York. The exhibition will be on view from May 1 to July 18, 2025, at the gallery’s Upper East Side location. While universal fascination with Pablo Picasso’s personal life and relationships has generated enormous interest in his portrayals of family, friends, and lovers, some of the painter’s most important innovations and powerful statements were made in the area of still life art. According to his biographer John Richardson, “still life is the genre that Picasso would eventually explore more exhaustively and develop more imaginatively than any other artist in history.” 'Picasso: Still Life' is one of the few exhibitions ever organized to focus on his dynamic depiction of everyday objects in various mediums throughout his career.

Over forty examples from Picasso’s private collection of his own work—including several never before seen by the public—are brought together for the first time in a selective survey of his still life production between 1908 and 1962. The exhibition opens with a group of paintings and drawings that demonstrate the crucial role of still life in the birth and evolution of cubism between 1908 and 1914, centered around the motifs that preoccupied Picasso during this period: the guitar, the bottle and drinking glass, and the table. The extraordinary stylistic diversity and experimentation that characterize the artist’s oeuvre overall is demonstrated by flower, fruit, and fish compositions that alternate between classical and conceptual modes of representation.
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