Pablo Picasso and Camilo José Cela, the story of a friendship by 40 displays in Padrón

What does a bottle of anise must do with Pablo Picasso and Camilo José Cela? It is without doubt one of the presents that the well-known painter gave to the Nobel Prize, a bottle signed by him. That is without doubt one of the objects proven within the Picasso Alive exhibition. The Picassian legacy of Camilo José Cela. It is within the Camilo José Cela Foundation, within the Coruña city of Padrón, and evaluations the historical past of friendship that each artists lived by a group of greater than 40 items. A relationship that started on the finish of the 50s of the final century and lasted till the demise of the painter.

That of Cela and Picasso is a little-known relationship however from which a number of collaborations arose. Literature and portray united in nearly fifty items that inform us concerning the friendship between the 2, the passions shared between the 2 artists.

The exhibition contains works that Picasso designed with Cela or for Cela, together with paperwork, editions, work, texts, artworks or images. But within the pattern we are able to additionally see totally different objects that got to one another.

A retrospective that brings one other imaginative and prescient of the creativity of each authors nearer and that enables us to know some moments they shared. We can discover collaborations between the 2 equivalent to Drawings and writings, in addition to the primary proofs and manuscripts of Gavilla de fábulas sin amor that had been accompanied within the printed version with 32 authentic drawings by Picasso.

fiftieth anniversary of Picasso’s demise

The exhibition, which might be visited till May 31, is without doubt one of the initiatives launched to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the demise of the painter from Malaga. In truth, the Camilo José Cela Foundation has a priceless legacy of Picasso amongst its funds and provides six of them to Picasso. Branco no recuerdo azul, the good exhibition with which the Xunta will vindicate the Galician imprint within the artist’s profession on the Museum of Fine Arts of A Coruña by an anthology of 120 items, a lot of them consultant of his coaching interval in A Coruña and its stage of maturity and consecration.