He was born on October 25, 1881. Pablo Ruiz-Picasso. Since then, 141 years have passed, and the anniversary party was commissioned and premiered by the Museu Picasso in Barcelona. in the permanent collection dedicated to his father, Jose Ruiz Blasco. The hero of the room is the painting. ‘loft’that job that left A Coruña eight months ago and where it appeared in the last eight years.
Barcelona pampers now a picture that house museum the artist cannot. The family owns the painting ‘Palomar’, painted in A Coruña between 1891 and 1895 by Pablo Picasso’s father, and gave it to the A Coruña City Council as a deposit in 2014. Anyone entering the Picasso House Museum can enjoy these pigeons eating and resting. It’s a jewel that seems eternal, permanent, and a bit of A Coruña remains unseen. A jewel that is a link between Picasso and his father, who ordered the little boy to draw the legs of pigeons as an exercise and on his first steps as a painter. It is unknown whether this painting, now in Barcelona, had the touch of a Malaga genius, but legend has it, participated in the creation of little Picassoloft’. Anyone who chooses what they want to believe.
So how did you come to Barcelona? In February of this year, the painting’s owners reached a purchase agreement with a foundation affiliated with the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, which has a large collection of the artist and numerous pigeons from Coruña. Oil on canvas for the Catalan museum missing piece. And now she has given him the place he deserves.
“‘Palomar’ is a relic of Fundació Noguera, who with this generous act supports the Museum’s preparatory actions to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the artist’s death,” says the museum. Although exhibitions and events were planned for 2023, it started.
A Coruña will also participate in this festival with an exhibition titled ‘Picasso, white in blue memory’ at the Fine Arts Museum. Will have 69 works Malaga artist from museums dedicated to his works located in Malaga, Paris and Barcelona. There will also be artifacts from the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid, where ‘Guernica’ is on permanent display, and the Picasso Museum in Antibes, where Picasso devoted himself to painting in a castle. The Museu Picasso in Barcelona will organize a joint exhibition with Fundació Miró on the friendship and mutual admiration between the two artists.
Until the arrival of this tribute, which France and Spain have prepared with a comprehensive program of events for the coming year, other memories of the painter’s life emerge. In the example of Barcelona, which opened a new field, it’s the father who gets to know. Although he painted ‘Palomar’ in A Coruña, he also had a strong connection with the Catalan city, as he was a professor of Fine Arts there. He lived in this city until his death in 1913.
A victory for Barcelona, a great loss for A Coruña. A still open wound. “This is a drama for us, a sadness,” said Beatriz Doldán, director of the Picasso Museum in A Coruña, when ‘Palomar’ flew to Barcelona eight months ago. There were almost no alternatives. City Council was aware of the owner family’s intention to remove it as they received a bid late last year, but the owners did not propose it to local government or put forward an option for the piece to remain. City.