The MoMA to gather 150 Picasso’s works

The MoMA Museum of Modern Art in New York will gather 150 sculptures by Pablo Picasso this autumn under the title ‘Picasso Sculpture'. This is the first sculptures retrospective by Picasso in the United States in 50 years.

The exhibition to be held from September 14 to February 7, 2016, will include some pieces that they have never been brought to the United States. So this exhibition offers the opportunity to explore an aspect not well-known within the Picasso’s large and prolific carrier, announced the MoMA in a press release.

During his lifetime, Picasso was an artist devotee to the sculpture technique and less frequently, he used traditional and less conventional materials and techniques to practice this kind of art to which he dedicated in an autodidactic manner and prepared to broke the pre-established rules.

Picasso used to hide most of his sculptures in his private residence and the public in general only had the opportunity to see one of his artistic facets hidden in the retrospective  'Hommage à Picasso' in Paris.

This is not the first time that the MoMA organizes an exhibition to pay homage to the Picasso sculpture. In 1967, the museum presented The Sculpture of Picasso, which continuous to be the first and last exhibition in the United States focused on this aspect up to now.

The 150 sculptures chosen come from private museums and collections of the United States and Europe, and the museum especially thanks the collaboration of the Picasso Musuem of París, which has the third part of the total exhibition.

The exhibition will include some of the master works which are already in the permanent collection at the MoMA like Guitar (1914) made of metal and She-Goat (1950) made of bronze.