After Milan and Mantua, exhibition dedicated to Picasso's foreigner in France arrives in Rome in 2025

Coming to Rome in 2025, after Palazzo Reale in Milan and Palazzo Te in Mantua, the second Italian stage of the exhibition Picasso the Stranger: It will be on display from Feb. 27 to June 29, at the Museo del Corso - Polo Museale, organized by Fondazione Roma with Marsilio Arte and realized thanks to the collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris (MNPP), the main lender, the Palais de la Port Doréand Paris, the Museu Picasso Barcelona, the Musée Picasso in Antibes, the Musée Magnelli - Musée de la céramique in Vallauris, and important and historic European private collections. Curator of the exhibition is Annie Cohen-Solal, with a talk by Johan Popelard of the Musée national Picasso-Paris.

More than 100 works by Picasso will be on display, as well as documents, photographs, letters and videos. And for the Rome stop, previously unseen works, selected by the curator, will be added. The exhibition particularly features an important section devoted to the Roman spring of 1917 spent by Pablo Picasso with Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Serge de Diaghilev and Leonid Massine. “Picasso’s Roman Spring in 1917 remains a historic moment of rebirth for the ’foreign’ artist after the confiscation (December 1914) of his Cubist works by the French government,” explains the exhibition curator and author of the book Picasso. A Foreigner’s Life (Prix Femina Essai, 2021), already translated into ten languages and published in Italy by Marsilio Editori.

The exhibition itinerary at the Museo del Corso - Polo Museale, enriched by loans from important European museums and private collections, will also delve into how the artist established himself, a foreigner in France, and imposed his aesthetic revolutions.

Born in 1881 in Málaga, Spain, Picasso settled in Paris permanently in 1904. Although France hosted him until his death and his fame spread beyond its borders, the artist never obtained French citizenship. The exhibition thus follows the artist’s aesthetic and political trajectory to analyze how Picasso shaped his own identity while living in the difficult condition of an immigrant.

After Milan and Mantua, exhibition dedicated to Picasso's foreigner in France arrives in Rome in 2025

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