That exhibition was America’s first introduction to contemporary European developments in modern art, with avant-garde movements like Fauvism, Die Brücke, Der Blaue Reiter and Cubism all being represented. Picasso’s 1910 painting Woman with a Mustard Pot was one of the highlights of the legendary Armory Show held in New York in 1913. It is hardly surprisingly therefore that Picasso never sold the work all his life, it remained a treasured possession. The French art historian and Picasso specialist Pierre Daix describes the picture as Picasso’s ‘final farewell to Eva and a last outburst of grief’. The result is an intimate portrait of his lost love, her head bent over a book. They would soon marry but just before the wedding he completed the unfinished painting of Eva. Two years later, Picasso fell in love with Olga Khokhlova. In 1913 Eva fell ill and in 1915 she died after a long period of suffering. It is a tribute to the love of his life, Eva Gouel (also known as Marcelle Humbert), whom he met in 1910. The splendid painting was begun by Picasso in 1914 and eventually completed in 1917. The Triton Foundation purchased Woman in a Corset Reading a Book in 2010. The show will also include a range of Picasso’s prints and drawings, as well as his ceramic masterpiece Big Vase with Female Nudes (1950), likewise on loan from a private collection. Together with the three key works in the Gemeentemuseum’s own Picasso collection, it will form the heart of the exhibition. The exhibition has been prompted by the Triton Foundation’s spectacular acquisition of Picasso’s Cubist period painting Woman in a Corset Reading a Book and will mark the picture’s first public showing in the Netherlands. This spring, a modest selection of items from his vast oeuvre goes on show in the Triton Room at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. His constant stylistic innovations at crucial points of his career – the emotional Blue and Pink Period paintings, the fragmented world of his Cubism and the disconcerting Realism of his Neo-Classical works –repeatedly confirmed his status as an avant-garde artist of the first water. Pablo Picasso was perhaps the greatest artist of the twentieth century.
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