PABLO PICASSO

Pace has been extremely fortunate to have worked with the Picasso family mounting extraordinary exhibitions overthe last 40 years. This collaboration with FABA will mark Pace’s thirtieth show featuring Picasso’s work and itseighth major solo presentation dedicated to the artist. As part of the gallery’s presentation, Pace Publishing willproduce a new book focused on the sketchbooks in the upcoming exhibition, which will be available to purchase on-site and online upon the show’s opening in November.

The sketchbooks featured in the upcoming show at Pace in New York—which will be displayed chronologically—datebetween 1900 and 1959, spanning almost every period of Picasso’s career. These artworks will be contextualized bya rich body of research about the events of Picasso’s life, assembled by curatorial advisors and Picasso expertsMarilyn McCully and Michael Raeburn. Additionally, monitors installed atop the tables in the gallery space will showimages of all the pages from the sketchbooks in the exhibition, with each monitor running on its own loop to allowvisitors to experience every sketchbook from cover to cover. A film about the making of the artist’s War and _Peace_murals in the French city of Vallauris will also be presented in the exhibition alongside his drawings for the project.

Offering a window into Picasso’s imagination and creative process, each of the sketchbooks in the show is connectedto well-known bodies of work by the artist, from his youthful experimentations in Spain and France around 1900through the revolutionary developments of his time in Paris and his final years in the South of France. Thesesketchbooks—exhibited alongside related ceramics, paintings, photographs, and archival materials—shed light onPicasso’s approach for many of his major works, including his iconic painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), partof the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Dora Maar in an Armchair (1939), part of the collection ofthe Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; and his large-scale War and Peace murals_,_ completed in 1952.Sketchbooks in the exhibition also feature pages of poetry by the artist, who often wrote in a lyrical, stream ofconsciousness style in both Spanish and French.

Picasso: 14 Sketchbooks will open nearly 40 years after Pace’s presentation of Je Suis le Cahier: The Sketchbooks ofPicasso, a landmark exhibition organized by Arne and Marc Glimcher at the gallery’s East 57th Street space in 1986.Je Suis le Cahier, the first exhibition to introduce Picasso’s sketchbooks to the world, traveled to numerous artinstitutions internationally following its run at Pace, including the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Los AngelesCounty Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Schirn KunsthalleFrankfurt, and the Kunsthaus Zurich. Pace and Atlantic Monthly Press published a catalogue—edited by Arne andMarc Glimcher—devoted to the exhibition, and this book remains a key resource on the artist.