Drawings of animals, engraved bones, statuettes – prehistoric art discovered in the twentieth century influenced the work of Pablo Picasso and it is presented in an exhibition that opens next Wednesday at the Anthropological Museum of Man in Paris, reported AFP.
More than 40 works and objects of the Spanish artist, as well as prehistoric exhibits, are united in the exhibition “Picasso and Prehistory”, which provides a unique opportunity to discover Picasso’s relationship with art during this historical period. “Prehistoric art with Picasso, it’s curious, crossing points of view,” Cécile Godefroy, art historian and curator of the exhibition, explained to journalists.
Although the dating of the first exhibits and drawings from prehistoric times begins at the beginning of the twentieth century, it was only in the period between the two wars that Picasso, already an established artist, discovered the myth of the first artists and began to experiment.
When in 1922 in Haut-Garonne, France, the statuette of Venus by Lespuges was discovered, Picasso bought two copies of the statuette, which he arranged among his works in his studio, writes BTA. The exhibition is part of the events marking the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and will be open until June 12, 2023.
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