A MAJOR exhibition, bringing together more than 150 works by Pablo Picasso, will be held at Tate Liverpool next year.
Key paintings and drawings from galleries across the world will feature in the show – the first to explore the post-war period of the Spanish artist’s life in depth.
Opening in May, 2010, it is hoped to draw even more visitors than the record 194,000 who attended the Albert Dock gallery’s high-profile Klimt exhibition last year.
Tate Liverpool director Christoph Grunenberg said: “This will be a very rich exhibition of many paintings and masterworks, but it will also put him into political context.
“Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and at a time when the ideology of western capitalism is in deep crisis, this exhibition feels opportune.
“We are very pleased to bring another exhibition of the highest quality to Liverpool and hope it will attract record crowds.”
One of the most recognised figures in 20th-century contemporary art, Picasso was a painter, draughtsman and sculptor, as well as co-founder of the revolutionary Cubist movement.
He is almost as well known for his colourful personal life as for the more than 50,000 works he created.
Highlights of the Tate Liverpool exhibition will include his masterpiece The Charnel House 1944-45, marking 50 years since it was last seen in the UK.
Inspired by a film about a Spanish Republican family killed in the kitchen of their house, it is widely considered to be one of his greatest pieces.
