Articles

Pablo Picasso

Installation view of the ‘Picasso and Paper’ exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (25 January – 13 April 2020)

RA Exhibitions

< 5 years ago

Video: watch Picasso make a masterpiece

Filmed in 1956, ‘Le Mystère Picasso’ is a documentary capturing Picasso in full creative flow. Three of the works he’s seen making in the film are now the walls of the RA, in ‘Picasso and Paper’ – watch how one of them came to be, in this short film…

Pablo Picasso, Femmes à leur toilette (detail)

RA Exhibitions

< 5 years ago

On the paper trail of Pablo Picasso

Antique drawing sheets, Paris metro tickets and lavish wallpapers – the medium of paper was a living ground for the unassailable creative genius of Pablo Picasso. Julian Bell previews our groundbreaking exhibition, Picasso and Paper.