The article published on the website of “The Art
Newspaper” on February 20, 2013. The title
of the article is Picasso and Chicago.
The author started by telling the reader that “Picasso and Chicago” included more than 250 works of the institute’s plus loans from private collections in the city and beyond.
Also the narrator mentioned that ten satellite displays explored Picasso’s inspirations, ranging from African art to Paul Cézanne. Although he never visited America, the Spanish artist had a soft spot for the city that was home to collectors who were immediately receptive to his work.
The author of this article informed that Chicagoans
such as the collectors Frederic Clay and Helen Birch Bartlett ensured that the institute
acquired works by Picasso from the 1920s onwards, including The Old Guitarist,
1903-04 (above).
The city’s admiration of the
artist culminated in a commission for a monumental sculpture unveiled in 1967 in front of the
Richard J.
Moreover, the author told that he peg for this Picasso celebration, sponsored by BMO Harris Bank, was the centenary of the Armory Show of 1913 (left), a scaled-down version of which was hosted by the museum after its New York debut.
I found the article interesting and
useful for me. I was interested in fact when Picasso discovered the institute owned
Mother and Child, 1921, he gave Hartmann who was the lead architect of the
city’s Modernist civic centre a fragment of canvas featuring a man holding a
fish, telling him to give it to the institute, which would know what it was.
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... I was SURPRISED BY THE fact THAT Picasso gave Hartmann, the lead architect of the city’s Modernist civic centre, a fragment of THE canvas featuring a man holding a fish, telling him to give it to the institute, which would know what it was.