As part of the commemoration for the 50 anniversary of the death of the wonderful Spanish artist, Fine Arts will hold the exhibition "Picasso in the Museum's heritage".

This proposal brings together more than 30 works by Picasso preserved in the institutional heritage and can be enjoyed from Tuesday 28 March to 18 of June.

About the exhibition that will take place in the room 33 of the traditional venue located on Avenida del Libertador 1473, its director Andrés Duprat expressed: "Picasso has embraced art with such passion and conviction that it has led him to be the great experimenter of the 20th century".

Duprat maintains that the investigations and formal creations and the technical searches of the Spanish artist "have consistently expanded the limits of art in a definitive way. It could perfectly be said that there is a before and after Picasso in the history of art”.

Regarding the commemoration of 50 anniversary of his death, and in tune with the tributes that will be paid in the main museums of the world, "We wanted to join this anniversary by presenting a series of pieces from our collection that reflect his talent, and his multiple interests and searches through drawing, engraving and ceramics. Likewise, "Woman lying down" will be exhibited, large format oil painting 1931, one of the most outstanding pieces of the museum.

Under the curatorship of Paola Melgarejo, museum researcher, the exhibition will cover typical themes of the artist, from the various techniques that he addressed. "Throughout his life, between 1899 Y 1972, Picasso sought to master engraving from different media, as aquatint, etching, dry point, linocut and lithography, until it became a true benchmark”, explains the curator.

"Since the decade of 1940 -Add-, he also specialized in ceramics, which he considered a consecrated artistic technique, and for thirty years he experimented with different solutions in shapes and colors, representing on clay the themes that fascinated him”.

The works on display, dated between 1905-1959, include engravings, drawings and ceramics made from his youth, among which there are portraits of important women in his life or scenes in his atelier, and also pieces that show his interest in the political situation between the wars and the representation of fantastic animals, with which he identified and which today are universally recognizable Picasso symbols.

The exhibition also evokes, based on documentation and photographs from the institutional archive, the Pro-Picasso Commission for Fine Arts, formed in 1956, during the management of Jorge Romero Brest as director, with the intention of raising funds to acquire works by the artist from Malaga.