The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is currently playing host to an exhibition celebrating the legacy of Yousuf Karsh, the man behind some of the 20th century's most famous black and white portraits. The exhibit features more than 100 photographs, including this iconic image of Picasso staring contemplatively at a vase. Catch the show in Boston before January 19, 2009.
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New York's Acquavella gallery (an elegant home for 19th-20th centurymasters) is currently commemorating Picasso and one of his most captivating subjects, Marie-Therese Walter, the voluptuous, blond girl from several of his famed works made in 1932. The show (now through November 29) will mark the first time that many of these pictures will be shown together in the United States since the 1932 Picasso retrospective at Galeries Georges Petit in Paris. Above, Still Life with Tulips.
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The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will show Picasso's lighter side (or at least his pastels and drawings) through December 7th.
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Also at Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Blind Minotaur Guided by a Little Girl in the Night, December 1934.
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A visitor looks at a painting by Vicent Van Gogh "L'arlesienne" (1888) and a portrait of "Lee Miller in Arlesienne" (1937) (by Spanish painter Picasso during the exhibition "Picasso and Masters" ( Picasso et les Maitres) at the Grand Palais in Paris. The exhibition, lasting until February 2, 2009, focuses on the painter’s dialogue with other artists through his brushstrokes.
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Also in Paris, visitors to the Musee d' Orsay can catch an extension of the exhibition at the Grand Palais—a mini-juxtaposition of both Manet and Picasso’s Dejeuner sur le’herbes. Two picnics on lawns, two very different interpretations.
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Picasso's Guitar, a remnant of his sculptural, cubist period in Paris (1914), is part of the MoMA’s permanent collection and on view now at the museum.
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Back in Paris, the Louvre is also taking part in the “Picasso and his Masters” explosion in the city with an exhibition of the painter’s work as compared to that of Delacroix. Picasso’s interpretation of the women of Algiers shows just how far he tried to stray from his predecessors.
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