New Royal Academy exhibition to show Pablo Picasso's fascination with paper

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Zoe Paskett11 July 2019

A new exhibition at the Royal Academy will feature more than 300 works by Pablo Picasso made on paper.

Picasso and Paper will look at the artist’s uses of paper over his 80 year career, including drawings, watercolours, sculpture and collage.

Highlights of the exhibition include a four-and-a-half metre collage entitled Women at Their Toilette, which will be exhibited in the UK for the first time in 50 years, a collection of Cubist collages such as Violin and documentary film Documentary film Le Mystère Picasso of 1955, showing the artist at work.

The exhibition will take viewers on a chronological journey through the different stages of Picasso’s career, with notable pieces exhibited alongside preparatory drawings and other paper works that correspond to the same theme.

His endeavours as a printmaker will also be on display, exploring the different materials and techniques he used, as well as Picasso’s own printing press from the years before his death.

A Picasso exhibition at Tate Modern last year, Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy, helped the gallery become the UK's most popular museum for the first time.

Picasso and Paper will run at the Royal Academy from January 25-April 13 2020, royalacademy.org.uk

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