Museo Picasso Málaga
Picasso last visited Málaga at age 19, but toward the end of his life expressed the wish that his work be displayed in the city of his birth. That wish became a reality in 2003. Continued gifts and loans by Picasso’s family and their art foundations have swelled the collection. Most of the works are unfamiliar as they are drawn from the artist’s private holdings. Because Picasso’s greatest hits are elsewhere, this museum focuses on works the artist himself treasured to explore his ever-evolving genius over a career that spanned 8 decades. During the same period that he was making abstract Cubist portraits, for example, he also drew delicate portraits of his son so realistic that they could be photographs.
WARNING: Buy tickets online in advance. They only cost 1€ more at the box office, but there’s no guarantee that they will be available.
Picasso last visited Málaga at age 19, but toward the end of his life expressed the wish that his work be displayed in the city of his birth. That wish became a reality in 2003. Continued gifts and loans by Picasso’s family and their art foundations have swelled the collection. Most of the works are unfamiliar as they are drawn from the artist’s private holdings. Because Picasso’s greatest hits are elsewhere, this museum focuses on works the artist himself treasured to explore his ever-evolving genius over a career that spanned 8 decades. During the same period that he was making abstract Cubist portraits, for example, he also drew delicate portraits of his son so realistic that they could be photographs.
WARNING: Buy tickets online in advance. They only cost 1€ more at the box office, but there’s no guarantee that they will be available.
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