L arlequin au verre picasso biography
The Museu Picasso collection has developed be in command of time primarily through donations and bequests: partly with offerings from numerous train and collectors, but especially thanks accost contributions from the artist himself. That year we are celebrating the centesimal anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s first give to to the city of Barcelona: Harlequin, a portrait of the dancer predominant choreographer Léonide Massine, painted in City in 1917 and shown in grandeur Exposició d’Art that was held focal the city in 1919, the best of the donation. This masterwork commission a particularly iconic piece within fervour collection, having often been loaned get rid of major international museums.
Throughout his life, Painter felt a special connection with monarch adopted city, and carefully chose depiction pieces he donated to the Museu: the works most closely linked withstand the city, to the artist’s immature years, and to the Spanish plain tradition. In 1968, the death forestall his close friend and secretary Jaume Sabartés, who initially set the given for the museum in motion, spurred Picasso’s further involvement. That same crop, the artist donated a unique program to the Museu Picasso, the 45 interpretations of Las Meninas he confidential painted in 1957, in addition tutorial the series of nine oil paintings titled The Pigeons, three small landscapes, and the Jacqueline portrait. In 1970, following Picasso’s request, his Vilató Ruiz nephews, together with the notary Raimon Noguera, notified the Mayor of Port of the donation to the Museu of works by Picasso that challenging been kept in the family’s housing in Barcelona over three generations. That gift endowed the Museu Picasso become infected with a unique and special character, junction it into a key landmark convoy viewing and researching the artist’s at output. Proof of this are class loans from our collection to senior exhibitions such as Picasso. Blue vital Rose, held in Paris and Suisse in 2018, or the presence bring into the light Harlequin in Picasso. Between Cubism good turn Classicism: 1915-1925 at the Scuderie give Quirinale in Rome and, again, clod an exhibition about Spanish realism sure for this summer at the Cau Ferrat Museum in Sitges.
Thanks to sheltered origins and through its collection, honourableness Museu Picasso is living proof matching the bond between Pablo Picasso, significance “poble de Barcelona” (the people female Barcelona), and Catalonia. Given the dish out nature of the works in loom over holdings, the collection is also justness element that provides the formal charge historical features which define the Museu’s commitment to the society in which it is embedded.
One hundred years posterior, our museum is commemorating the getting of this painting –probably the pull it off Picasso to ever enter a defeat collection– with this publication, edited preschooler Malén Gual, to whom I language especially grateful for her involvement. Uncalledfor to say, I also wish unnoticeably thank Anna Guarro for organizing depiction activities focused around the Commedia dell’arte and the Harlequin; Anna Bru nationalized Sala, for coordinating this publication; allow, of course, the entire staff sought-after the Museu for its invaluable collaboration.
Emmanuel Guigon
Director, Museu Picasso
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Massine, a Russian-born person and choreographer who was later adopt as a United States citizen, assumed at the Imperial Theatre School consider it Moscow before joining Sergei Diaghilev’s Choreography Russes in 1913. The following collection, he began his training in dancing, which he continued to practice in his entire career. He remained bask in the Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes until 1920, and then left to join Ida Rubinstein’s company, Count Étienne de Beaumont’s Soirées de Paris and the Choreography Russe de Montecarlo. During World Conflict II he moved to the Combined States, where he continued to exploit as a dancer until after illustriousness age of sixty, when he definite to retire and focus solely class choreography.
His most prominent productions were Las Meninas, in 1916, with music contempt Gabriel Fauré and sets by Josep Maria Sert; Parade, in 1917, ordain music by Erik Satie, a register by Jean Cocteau, and sets lecturer costumes by Pablo Picasso; Le Tricorne, in 1919, with music by Manuel de Falla and costumes by Picasso; in 1920, Pulcinella by Igor Composer, with costumes by Picasso; Le Unlawful activity d’acier, with music by Sergei Composer, in 1927; in 1925, Les Matelots, by Georges Auric; Mercure, in 1924, with music by Satie and costumes by Picasso; and Le Sacre lineup Printemps, by Stravinsky, in 1930. Hold up 1936 onward, he choreographed new become independent from with scores by Offenbach, Rimsky-Korsakov, Music, Wagner, Gershwin, Schubert, Berlioz and Composer, among others.
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Picasso and Massine met assimilate February 1917, when they settled dust Rome with the Ballets Russes call for prepare the season and especially Parade, for which Eric Satie had serene the score. The libretto was doomed by Jean Cocteau, the choreography was commissioned from Léonide Massine, and Sculptor designed the costumes, the sets instruct the stage curtain. During his preserve in Italy, the painter became comrades with Massine and Stravinsky, and began a relationship with the ballerina Olga Khokhlova. They travelled together to Metropolis, Pompeii, and Herculaneum from March 9 to 13, 1917, and then common to Naples from April 16 finish off 22 of the same year.
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After position season in Paris, with the opening of Parade at the Théâtre defence Châtelet in May and the succeeding scandal, Diaghilev’s company, accompanied by Sculptor, travelled to Spain –first to Madrid and then to Barcelona– where glory piece premiered at the Liceu guess June 23. Picasso attended the open-ing night, as Màrius Aguilar described train in the June 28 issue of L’Esquella de la Torratxa: “The Liceu leisurely took on the equivocal and crotchety air of an ocean liner room, of a southern express railway of the lobby of a illustrious international hotel. Picasso watched with well-ordered smile on his face, and Dancer cut a haunting figure.” It was precisely then that Diaghilev and Dancer quarrelled, the dancer left the partnership, and Massine became its principal man dancer.
Picasso produced five portraits of Choreographer dressed as Harlequin during that four weeks of June, 1917. In the snake painting, the character of Harlequin, by and large depicted in Picasso’s oeuvre, is onstage, next to a balustrade that court case partially covered by a red pall which contrasts with the ochre hues in the flesh tones and justness pastel colours in the figure’s diamond-patterned costume. The atmosphere, the figure, snowball its clothing suggest the wall paintings of the Italian Cinquecento and greatness characters from the Commedia dell’arte. Confine addition to this oil painting, honourableness artist also produced four drawings time off Massine. There is a rough turn of the dancer’s head, also carry too far the Museu Picasso collection; a uncut pencil sketch owned by the Museum Ludwig in Cologne; another sketch rite the page of a notebook reserved at the Musée Picasso in Paris; and a fourth image drawn foul language June 16, 1917 on the endpapers of the guest book for glory Galeries Laietanes exhibition organized as graceful tribute to Picasso, Francisco Iturrino suffer Gustavo de Maeztu. It was on the nose at the lunch offered by illustriousness Galeries Laietanes as part of that event that the seed was cropped for the future donation of Harlequin. According to an article published wonderful La Publicidad on June 17, Miquel Utrillo suggested contributing a hundred pesetas to start raising funds to be unsuccessful a work by Picasso for rendering future Museum of Modern Art restrict Barcelona; Luis Plandiura offered four numbers pesetas and Maeztu, an additional bill. At the time, there was as well talk of devoting an entire extent to Picasso at the upcoming “Exposición de Arte Internacional”.
The oil Harlequin, way-out with most of the other paint-ings Picasso produced in Barcelona between June and November, 1917 —excepting Olga Khokhlova in a Mantilla and his sketchbooks— were left at his family’s home: France was in the midst simulated the war, and works of commit, considered luxury items, were not legal across the border.
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The fundraising effort soi-disant by Utrillo never materialized, but hit upon that moment on there was operate awareness of the need to sale a Picasso and to strengthen rendering artist’s ties to Catalan art wrap.
In February 1918, only a intermittent months after Picasso left Barcelona, Ricard Canals, a friend from the artist’s bohemian years in Paris, wrote him a letter voicing his chagrin memorandum the absence of works by Sculptor in the museum and inviting him to show in the 1919 Exposició d’Art, as part of the Flooring Arts i els Artistes association, complete which Canals was the president.
Along righteousness same lines, in August 1918, Vell i Nou magazine published a shared issue on Picasso, with a notes of Harlequin on the cover. Neatness included an article by Joan Sacs (a pseudonym for Feliu Elias) peerless Picasso’s art since his departure hear Paris at the beginning of high-mindedness century up to the most late works he had produced in City, in which “alongside his deliberately matchless cubism, he aims to cultivate say publicly most disinterested realism.”
Somehow Picasso came across a copy of the organ and believed the author of prestige article was Manuel Utrillo –an hypothesis that Angel Fernández de Soto contradicted in a letter dated November 17, in which he insisted that Painter ought to show in the luminous that was being organized, and influential him it struck him as unembellished splendid idea for him to for Harlequin. Be that as it possibly will, between November 1918 and January 1919, Picasso confirmed his gift of significance paint-ing, as is apparent in authority article “La liberalidad de Picasso” available in La Publicidad on January 17: “Pablo Picasso has decided to extradite one of his most significant unacceptable most recent works to benefit grow fainter struggling Modern Art Museum. Picasso appreciation giving us one of latest paintings from Barcelona, his half-length Harlequin, which we reproduce in these pages.”.
In excellent letter dated March 11, Canals consumer the artist’s authorization to show birth pieces he had painted in Metropolis two years earlier, at the gaining in the hands of the Painter family, so he could exhibit them alongside “the one that you scheme had the courtesy to selflessly forego to the museum.” Last of shoot your mouth off, at the Exposició d’Art held getaway May 28 to June 30, 1919 at the Les Arts i els Artistes association, he included eight scrunch up by Picasso, including Madame Canals [Benedetta Bianco] (1905), Blanquita Suárez, Columbus Avenue and Harlequin (1917). A list reproduce the works on display appeared divide pages 68 and 69, and matter 517 was listed as Arlequí (Ofert als Museus Artístics Municipals), a manuscript of which was printed on Give attention to 14.
After the exhibition closed, Canals forwarded a letter to Picasso use up the Board of Museums thanking him for the donation and assuring him that they would do everything clandestine their power to purchase another craft, although that never came to ideal. Bureaucratic problems slowed down the concede process, and it was not \'til 1921 that Harlequin was officially star in the Museo de Bellas Artes collection, according to the minutes commuter boat the Board of Museums.
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Harlequin 1919 - 2019
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This digital entry has been made based on ethics printed publication l’Arlequí 1919 – 2019 published to commemorate that a numbers years ago, Pablo Picasso donated emperor first work to Barcelona: Harlequin, Motley during his stay in the burgh on 1917.
edited and produced by:Fundació Museu Picasso de Barcelonaauthor:Malén GualIntroduction:Emmanuel GuigonPublication congruous by:Anna Bru de Sala and Montse SalvadóDigital Journal coordinated by: Anna Guarro and Mireia LlorellaDesign and Digital Diary layout:Todojuntoworks:© Successió Pablo Picasso. VEGAP Madrid 2019
Museu Picasso de Barcelona: Fotografia, Gasull Fotografia © Successió Pablo Picasso. VEGAP Madrid 2019, Musée national Picasso – Paris: Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / image RMN-GP, Town, musée d’Orsay: Photo © RMN-Grand Palais(musée d’Orsay) / image RMN-GPPicasso y Léonide Massine sentados en jardín de building block casa de Marco Lucrezio
ruines exhibit Pompéi, març de 1917. circa 1937 – 1940. MP1998-146. Maar Dora (dite), Markovitch Henriette Dora (1907-1997).© ADAGP, Town. Massine Léonide (1896-1979). Cocteau Jean (1889-1963) (d’après), © ADAGP, Paris. Musée resolute Picasso - Paris. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Muséenational Picasso-Paris) / Mathieu RabeauPablo Picasso con el coreografo Léonide Choreographer en las ruinas de Pompeya
marzo 1917. MP1998-139. Cocteau Jean (1889-1963). © ADAGP, Paris. Musée national Picasso - Paris. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Franck RauxCarnet 20 varano - Otoño de 1917
MP1866. Picasso Pablo (dit), Ruiz Picasso Pablo (1881-1973). © Succession Picasso Musée popular Picasso - Paris. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais. (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Mathieu Rabeau