• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 09 / 17 / 2011

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2011.09.15 - 21:43:03 / radiorebelde.icrt.cu. Camaguey, Cuba.- The first exhibition in this city of original artwork by Spanish Pablo Picasso, offers the public 29 faces coming from the imagination of one of the symbols in the history of fine arts in the world.

Opened until September 21 at the Vicentina de la Torre Art Academy, the exhibition “Retratos imaginarios” (Imaginary Portraits) is composed of color printings made in 1969 by way of lithography technique, four years before the death of their author.

Part of the 27th Fidelio Ponce de Leon Provincial Visual Arts Exhibition, inaugurated on Tuesday, the pieces are included in the collection “Mi amor al arte, mi amor a Cuba” (My love for art, my love for Cuba), donated to the Cuban people by the president of the Brownstone Foundation, Gilbert Brownstone, from the United States, who attended the inauguration.

Made by Picasso when he was 88 years old at the French locality of Mougin and printed on corrugated cardboard, the portraits depict the faces of kings and jesters, deformed by humoristic attributes, with strong and diverse colors like blue, black, yellow, red and white.

The portraits are among the works given by Picasso’s widow to Brownstone, who told the press in Camaguey about his interest in exhibiting other creations of the collection in this city, referring to 25 famous artists and delivered to Havana’s National Museum of Fine Arts.
(ACN)