Maya Ruiz-Picasso The second of Pablo Picasso’s four children, he has survived some of the most emotional pieces in his private collection, nine works that help make sense of lesser-known periods of the artist’s work in Malaga.
Integrated into party collection Picasso museum The founder of Paris, whose foundation is now based on the same principle that allows nine works to enter: an endowment in which the heir covers payment of the donation tax.
In 1973, author and then Minister of Culture André Malraux’s law, created to measure Picasso’s enormous succession, allowed France to take over. 228 paintings, 158 sculptures, 1,495 drawings, 33 notebooks, 1,704 prints, 85 ceramics and 77 foreign works.
This made up for the lack of Picasso’s works in French collections and allowed the family to close the lid. tax they would have to face a legacy fraught with conflicts between the four families that the artist created.
This Eight works of Picasso An ocean sculpture from the Malaga-born artist’s personal collection—most of which donated by Maya—is on display in a dual exhibition from this Saturday to 31 December that brings out the artist’s most intimate side.
“My mother had an intuition that some of the artifacts she had a chance to inherit might find their way into the museum, so she chose works she had a special love for, such as portraits of her grandfather or father, notebook drawings,” she tells EFE. Diana Widmaier-Picasso one of the exhibition’s curators and Picasso’s grandson.
In addition to the emotional plane, the painter’s daughter made her choice taking into account the current shortcomings of the museum: Family’s first donation in 30 years He sought to make up for the lack of works from the artist’s last period, which were then less valued by the critics.
From realism to expressionism
The first of these two exhibitions starts with a realistic portrait Jose Ruiz and BlascoThe father of the artist who paints at the age of 14 and where Picasso’s early mastery comes to the fore.
Each of the nine establishments stars in a room surrounded by other artifacts. permanent collection associated museum
These include one of the great treasures of this donation, Maya Ruiz-Picasso’s endearing portrait of her grandmother, as well as a cubist image of little Maya with a lollipop and “El bobo”. Spanish roots Painter in the 30s.
It’s also exciting to see Maya Ruiz-Picasso’s childhood notebook where her father taught her to paint. illustrations then the little girl scored as if she was her teacher.
They have completed the donation of “La venus del gas”, a small art-inspired figurine. paleolithicMade in 1945, a sketchbook from 1962, a portrait of a man from 1971, and “Study for the Mandolin Player” from 1932.
He was born in 1935 from his relationship with Marie Therese Walter Maya lived with her father for a short time, and many of her childhood memories are for Picasso at the start of an existential crisis and later World War II, where he spent years practically in hiding to escape the Nazis. It goes back to WWII.
However, the artist’s second daughter is fourteen years younger than her first son, Paulo, and twelve and fourteen years older than him. Claude and the PigeonPicasso’s children with the painter Françoise Gilot were the most drawn of the cubist genius’ offspring.
Reminding that his mother was baptized in tribute, Widmaier-Picasso says, “Alongside the twelve portraits drawn between 1938 and 1939, he draws a soulful precision and such a classic line that even experts are surprised that Picasso did them.” for deceased sister the birth of the artist was experienced as a kind of resurrection.
now oldUnable to attend the presentation of the exhibition due to his fragile health, Picasso only spent weekends with his father and later holidays in the south while Picasso was living with his new family and babysitting Claude and Dove.
The museum and the French Government personally involved in the realization of this donation, monetary value Of these works, the family prefers not to give the numbers of the works they still have.
They counted when Picasso died 50,000 objects between pictures, documents, archives, photographs, sculptures or notebooks. The list of donated works can still be very long.