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 Matisse
and Picasso
A
major new
exhibition, called Matisse
Picasso, opens at the Tate Modern in London on Saturday 11th
May and continues until 18th August.
Matisse and Picasso, generally
regarded as the two greatest artists of the 20th century, knew
each other for many years having met in Paris in 1906 through
art collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein. They began as rivals but
gradually became closer and each had a significant influence on
the other's work.
This new exhibition is a collaboration
between Tate, the Réunion des Musées Nationaux and
the Musée Picasso with the Musée National d’Art
Moderne and the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris, and the Museum
of Modern Art, New York. The Matisse Picasso Exhibitions will
take place all three cities, starting in London, and will have
a large number of exceptional pieces, mostly paintings, by both
artists.
The works of both artists will
be seen together to highlight the influence that they had on each
other as well as to draw attention to the differences. The pieces
have been chosen to be comparable in size and quality.
The work on display includes Picasso’s
Boy Leading a Horse, 1906, and Matisse’s
Le Luxe 1, 1907, Matisse’s Blue Nude
and Picasso’s Nude with Raised Arms, both from
1907. There are portraits of both men's wives as well as still
life and landscapes.
Although the friendship between the
two men cooled when Matisse moved to Nice in 1917 and Picasso remained
in Paris, it was renewed after the Second World War when Picasso
moved to the South of France too. The friendship became even closer
and their influence on each more pronounced. As Matisse's health
and eyesight failed, he started to produce collages from cut out
paper, an echo of which can be seen in Picasso's flat sculptures
from the same period.
Quick
Facts
Address:
Tate
Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
Telephone:
020 7887 8000
Opening
Hours:
Sunday to Thursday, 10am-6pm
Friday and Saturday, 10am-10pm
Galleries open at 10.15am, Last admission into exhibitions Sunday
to Thursday - 6.15pm, Friday and Saturday 9.15pm
From the 1st to 18th August the
exhibition will be open from 10.15am - 10pm every day.
Nearest Underground: Southwark,
Blackfriars and London Bridge
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