Descripción
The poster is for the exhibition organised by Madeleine Rocher-Jauneau at the Musée de Lyon under the auspices of the Syndicat d’Initiatives de Lyon, in June 1953, to present a major retrospective of Picasso’s work from 1900 to 1953. The exhibition included one hundred and eighty-one works.
These were Picasso’s most important exhibitions in 1953. Several interesting retrospective exhibitions of his work were also held that year in various countries, including France, where one was held at the Musée d’Art Moderne in which “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” was shown for the first time since 1937.
Curiously, the work depicted on this poster was not reproduced or exhibited in the Lyon, Milan or Rome catalogues. Nor does it appear in the Zervos catalogue. Despite this, it was probably chosen for its great pictorial appeal. This painting appears in a photograph taken by Michel Sima on the occasion of Sabartés’ visit to the Antibes Museum on 14 October 1946. It was later reproduced in the catalogue of the Heidenheim Museum.
