After Pablo Picasso

After PABLO PICASSO (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, France, 1973).
"Geneviève à la cascade".
Etching.
Signed and dated on plate.
Measurements: 32,5 x 25,5 cm (print); 40 x 32 cm (paper); 81 x 66 cm (frame).

This is an engraving by Pablo Picasso that captures Geneviève Laporte, one of his muses. The work belongs to a series of engravings that the artist created while living in Mougins, France.

Creator of cubism along with Braque, Picasso was a turning point in the history of art. He began his studies in 1895, at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, and only two years later he had his first individual exhibition, at the café "Els Quatre Gats". After several short stays in Paris, Picasso settled definitively in the French capital in 1904. The definitive international recognition will come in 1939, as a result of the retrospective that the MOMA in New York dedicates to him. During the following decades, anthological exhibitions will be dedicated to him all over the world, in Rome, Milan, Paris, Cologne and New York, among many other cities. He is represented in the most important museums around the world, such as the Metropolitan, the MOMA and the Guggenheim in New York, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the National Gallery in London or the Reina Sofia in Madrid.