Event Item: 00018

Picasso: Fired with Passion

Exhibition: 6th Jul 2007 to 28th Oct 2007

Source: http://www.nms.ac.uk

His art, his loves, his life, beyond the canvas. This major international exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland celebrates the creativity and inspiration of this iconic artist. It brings together over 100 objects from world-renowned collections and gives a fascinating insight into his extraordinary life and work.

Through an array of significant works and personal material the exhibition explores Picasso's creativity between 1947 and 1961 when he lived and worked in Vallauris and Cannes in the south of France.

Photographs, personal mementos, reflections and reminiscences offer an intimate glimpse into Picasso's family life, and his friendships with contemporaries, such as the French artists Jean Cocteau and Georges Braque as well as acclaimed photographer Lee Miller and surrealist painter, poet, and historian Roland Penrose. The exhibition includes ceramics, paintings, lithography and metalwork produced by Picasso during this period of his life.

The highlight of the exhibition is a range of Picasso's major ceramic works; the first showing of any significance in the UK for over a decade. The exhibition also includes a series of major paintings on loan from Tate Modern and other institutions, as well as rarely-seen material from private collections.

National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF