Picasso-Giacometti

Past Exhibition

In collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris and the Fondation Giacometti, Qatar Museums presents the first exhibition dedicated to the work of two of the most important artists of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966).

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Picasso-Giacometti, curated by Catherine Grenier, Director of the Fondation Giacometti, with Associate Curators, Serena Bucalo-Mussely and Virginie Perdrisot, brings together more than 120 works by these two artists drawn from the collections of the Musée national Picasso and the Fondation Giacometti in Paris, as well as exceptional loans from French and other international collections, covering paintings, sculptures, sketches, photographs and interviews with the artists.

The exhibition reflects two years of research undertaken by the Fondation Giacometti and the Musée national Picasso, which reveals for the first time the previously unknown relationship between these two artists, who, despite an age gap of twenty years, shared many moments, both personal and professional.

The exhibition is organised in six sections, evoking different aspects of each artist’s production, including the development of their work as young artists through to their modernist creations, showing the correspondences between their works, the influence of the surrealist movement, and the return to realism during the post-war period.

The exhibition includes key works by each artist, such as: Self Portrait (1901), Woman Throwing a Stone (1931) and The She Goat (1950) by Picasso and Flower in Danger (1932), Tall Woman (1960), and Walking Man (1960) by Giacometti, presented alongside rare and fragile casts, some newly discovered drawings and photographic archives as well as some replicas of Giacometti’s works for the visually impaired visitors.

Musée national Picasso-Paris Fondation Giacometti
Self portrait by Alberto Giacometti.

Alberto Giacometti, Self-portrait, 1923, oil on canvas, 55 × 32 cm

Kunsthaus Zürich – Alberto Giacometti Stiftung | Giacometti Estate (Fondation Giacometti +ADAGP)

Self portrait by Pablo Picasso.

Pablo Picasso, Self-portrait, 1901, oil on canvas, 81 × 60 cm

Musée National Picasso-Paris Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979 | © Picasso Estate

"Portrait of Dora Maar" by Pablo Picasso.

Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Dora Maar, 1937, oil on canvas 92 × 65 cm

Musée National Picasso-Paris Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979 | © Picasso Estate

Sculpture titled "Seated Woman" by Alberto Giacometti.

Alberto Giacometti, Seated Woman, 1956, bronze, 51.3 × 15.6 × 23.9 cm

Fondation Giacometti, Paris | Giacometti Estate (Fondation Giacometti +ADAGP)