Picasso: masterpieces from the Musee National Picasso, Paris

Australian Exclusive

'If the progress of 20th-century art was to be defined by the achievements of a single individual, that individual would indisputably be Picasso.' - Edmund Capon - Director, Art Gallery of NSW 

This exhibition is co-organised by the Musée National Picasso, Paris, the Art Gallery of NSW and Art Exhibitions Australia. It is part of the Sydney International Art Series. 

In the most significant exhibition of his work ever held in Australia, the Art Gallery of NSW hosts over 150 of Pablo Picasso's most important paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings from the artist's personal collection. 

The exhibition is drawn from the permanent collection of the Musée National Picasso, Paris, the most renowned collection of the artist's works in the world. 

In an Australian exclusive, this exhibition captures every phase of Picasso's extraordinary career, including masterpieces from his Blue, Rose, Expressionist, Cubist, Neoclassical and Surrealist periods - and a segment of the film La Visite featuring Picasso at work in his studio. 

The exhibition, ranging from informal sketchbooks to finished masterpieces, will fill most of the Art Gallery's ground floor. Spanning seven decades of relentless and ever evolving work, the exhibition also chronicles the artist's relationship with the principal women in his life and their profound impact on each radical stage of his art.

Pablo Picasso, photo by Gjon Mili/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images