The Picasso Museum of Buitrago to host works by the artist preserved in other art galleries

The Picasso Museum - Eugenio Arias Collection (Plaza de Picasso 1, Buitrago del Lozoya) wish to celebrate the 30th anniversary of its creation with the inauguration of the exhibition program titled ‘La pieza invitada’ (The guest piece). With this initiative, the Centre, which is managed by the community of Madrid, makes the visitors get closer to works dedicated to this artist that have been are loaned by other institutions, and that the fact of being exhibited at this museum, they acquire a new meaning since they are presented in the context of the permanent exhibition.

This initiative started on January 14 with the work titled Corrida de toros (bullfighting), from the Picasso Museum in Barcelona. This ceramic piece belongs to a series of works made by Pablo Picasso in the South of France between 1947 and 1948 showing the image of a horseman riding a horse and a bullfighter with his cape, through simple lines and pure colors: black and red on a pink background.

The bullfighting theme is essential to understanding the work of Picasso. His passion for the bull is evident from his artistic beginnings, although it was at the end of his life when his link with the bulls approached him more to the identity of Spain living away from his country. For Picasso, the bull was a sacred and noble animal and it was with his friend and barber, Eugenio Arias, to whom this Museum is dedicated, with whom he used to go to bullfighting in Nimes or Arles.

The public will have the opportunity to appreciate this piece until March 29, parallel to the works of the permanent exhibition at the Picasso Museum of Buitrago.

The other guest piece titled Paissage de Vallauris, which belongs to the Picasso Foundation, the house where Picasso was born in Málaga, will come to the Picasso Museum of Buitrago on March 31 and will stay there until June28.

It is a lithographic engraving made in Paris, in 1953. Picasso made his first lithograph in 1919, but it was not until 1945 when he was really interested in this printing process at the Fernand Mourlot Studio in Paris, where this guest piece was made. There, he used all sorts of plates, such as stone or zinc, and tried several techniques, such as pencil, pen or wash drawing. This work is made through lithographic pencil on zinc, and represents a landscape of Vallauris, a town at the South of France, where Picasso and Eugenio Arias saw each other.

The Museum of Buitrago de Lozoya will host once again a work from the Picasso Museum in Barcelona (still not defined) from June 30 to September 30, and Françoise lithography on gray background, which the artist painted in Paris in 1950, from the Picasso Foundation, the house where Picasso was born in Malaga, from October 2 to December 27. The woman inside world meant to Picasso a field to which he always wanted to access. The Françoise dreamy attitude meditating in this work invites the viewers to discover this intimate universe of silence and calm.

The works may be seen in the context of the permanent collection and in its usual opening hours: Tuesday to Friday from 11 am. to 13:45 pm, and from 16.00 to 18.00; on Saturdays from 10.00 to 14.00 and from 16.00 to 19.00; on Sundays and holidays from 10.00 am to 14.00 pm.