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15 Picasso on Show

During his lifetime, Pablo Picasso held hundreds of solo exhibitions. Among them, several marked decisive milestones in the Spanish artist’s career: his first Paris exhibition at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in 1901, which brought him to the attention of the press; his first retrospective at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris in 1932, which he personally oversaw the installation; the 1939 exhibition at MoMA in New York, featuring his monumental anti-fascist masterpiece ★Guernica★; and the exhibition presenting his late paintings at the Palais des Papes in Avignon in 1970 and 1973.
At each exhibition, posters announcing the artist’s works covered city streets, allowing a wider public to become familiar with his creations. Of the more than 400 exhibition posters recorded, a large number reproduced graphic works, drawings or prints, whose bold areas of flat and solid colour or use of black and white lent themselves well to faithful reproduction.