Pablo Picasso, Paul Eluard. A Sublime Friendship
Paul Eluard was Picasso鈥檚 best friend from 1935 onwards. Following the disappearance of Apollinaire, Eluard was the only poet with who Picasso could converse and exchange or share ideas. Quickly, the surrealist poet became literally captivated by the demiurge-artist, 鈥渨ho insists of seeing everything, on projecting onto the screen of man everything he can understand, admit or transform, figure and transfigure... With Picasso, the walls come down鈥�. Only Eluard鈥檚 death, on 18 November 1952, would put an end to this brotherhood.
Picasso was grief-stricken by the poet鈥檚 premature demise. In the photograph taken at the burial, his face, up on the stand, clearly illustrates this sentiment. With Eluard, he also lost the poet who penetrated his art most intuitively and the person with and thanks to whom he experienced the adventure of communism. Just prior to Eluard鈥檚 death, the Braun publishing house released a series of drawings from the period 1942-1946 under the title Picasso, dessins. The work is preceded by a lovely text by Eluard, who, with expressive precision, beautiful imagery and a great deal of emotion, brings us to the conclusion made by Claude Roy, who knew both well: 鈥淧aul Eluard loved Picasso and was loved by him, probably more than anyone: there was between them the only unsuspected tenderness, that of equals鈥�.
The exhibition will take a thematic and chronological look at both individuals, through books and poems, illustrated works, portraits and drawings of Eluard and Nusch, Paul Eluard鈥檚 collection, photographs by Man Ray and 叠谤补蝉蝉补茂 and letters and documentaries recounting the meetings between the two friends.
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Paul Eluard was Picasso鈥檚 best friend from 1935 onwards. Following the disappearance of Apollinaire, Eluard was the only poet with who Picasso could converse and exchange or share ideas. Quickly, the surrealist poet became literally captivated by the demiurge-artist, 鈥渨ho insists of seeing everything, on projecting onto the screen of man everything he can understand, admit or transform, figure and transfigure... With Picasso, the walls come down鈥�. Only Eluard鈥檚 death, on 18 November 1952, would put an end to this brotherhood.
Picasso was grief-stricken by the poet鈥檚 premature demise. In the photograph taken at the burial, his face, up on the stand, clearly illustrates this sentiment. With Eluard, he also lost the poet who penetrated his art most intuitively and the person with and thanks to whom he experienced the adventure of communism. Just prior to Eluard鈥檚 death, the Braun publishing house released a series of drawings from the period 1942-1946 under the title Picasso, dessins. The work is preceded by a lovely text by Eluard, who, with expressive precision, beautiful imagery and a great deal of emotion, brings us to the conclusion made by Claude Roy, who knew both well: 鈥淧aul Eluard loved Picasso and was loved by him, probably more than anyone: there was between them the only unsuspected tenderness, that of equals鈥�.
The exhibition will take a thematic and chronological look at both individuals, through books and poems, illustrated works, portraits and drawings of Eluard and Nusch, Paul Eluard鈥檚 collection, photographs by Man Ray and 叠谤补蝉蝉补茂 and letters and documentaries recounting the meetings between the two friends.
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