""The exhibition will be intimate," says the museum's director Caroline Campbell, and will provide "a chance not just to get into his mind but his being, the spaces where the art was made and how the works were put together". These spaces were also archives and repositories of treasures (Jean Cocteau called him "the king of scavengers") as well as places where the artist displayed himself and his work to visitors and photographers."
"The gallery owns just one painting by Picasso, Still Life with a Mandolin (1924). The night scene was painted in the fishing village of Juan-les-Pins in the south of France, where Picasso had to pay his landlord 800 francs as compensation for painting on the walls of the garage, which had become his temporary studio. There is no record of what happened to those murals, which could probably now buy the house, the garage and half the village."
"The show is being curated by the National Gallery of Ireland's Janet McLean and Joanne Snrech from the the Musée Picasso in Paris. Scores of works will be going to Dublin from the latter museum. The works range from tiny pieces made using scraps of wood and metal when the artist first travelled to Paris in the early 1900s-poor and wandering among the cheap studios of Montmartre-to Musician, painted in 1972 at his final home and studio, the Notre-Dame-de-Vie farmhouse in the south of France."
An exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland recreates the studios and workspaces where Pablo Picasso produced art, emphasizing atmosphere and material context. The gallery owns a single Picasso painting, Still Life with a Mandolin (1924), painted in Juan-les-Pins, and anecdotes about painted garage walls and unpaid murals underline Picasso's resourcefulness. The show assembles loans from the Musée Picasso in Paris, spanning early scraps made in Montmartre to Musician (1972) from his Notre-Dame-de-Vie studio. More than 100 creative spaces are acknowledged, with the exhibition focusing on key studios recreated through paint, film and photography, including images by Dora Maar during Guernica.
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