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Picasso unesco mural

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PICASSO, Pablo (1881-1973)

In 1957, the UNESCO “Committee on Architecture and Works of Art”, in collaboration with the Committee of art advisors, chose eleven artists to undertake the task of decorating the permanent headquarters in Paris, inaugurated in 1958. In this context, UNESCO commissioned a painted mural from Pablo Picasso. The artist began his studies for the decoration of the new Parisian building in December 1957 and filled two notebooks with sketches of bathing figures and nudes, in the style of his series of Bathers from 1956. On January 29, 1958, the artist completed the final scale model for this immense work. Two months later, the mural was presented to Luther Evans (1902-1981), UNESCO’s Director General from 1953 to 1958, in the presence of the President of the UNESCO Executive Board, as well as Georges Salles (1889-1966), the second President of the ICOM from 1953 to1959 and Vice President of the Committee of art advisors.

The mural is made up of forty wooden panels painted in acrylic, covering a surface of almost one hundred square meters. It represents a

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Picasso

The early years of the life of Pablo Ruiz Picasso are closely linked to Malaga, where he was born in 1881. Family tradition also played a large part in shaping his character. His life and works would later see him become the most famous native of Malaga of all.

This open, cosmopolitan city, birthplace of a unique artist and now a focal point for art and culture worldwide, will always remember Picasso as its favourite son.

The Picasso Museum

In 2003 the city of Pablo Picasso’s birth became home to the Museo Picasso Málaga which is a museum devoted to the artist.

Picasso was born into the rich cultural heritage of Málaga, the beautiful Mediterranean port of Andalucia in southern Spain.

Situated at geographical crossroads, Málaga has been an important city since before the days of ancient Rome, and the region was monumental in its impact on world culture. Picasso carried on this legacy and became an innovator of artistic styles and  techniques, changing the course of modern art.

The new museum has an extensive selection of works by the artist from the priva

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For a long time considered a foreigner by the country in which he lived, Pablo Picasso never obtained French citizenship. The exhibitions coming to the Palazzo Te in Mantua and the Palazzo Reale in Milan delve into this history, narrated for us by the journalist and author Marco Carminati

When Pablo Picasso died in Mougins, Provence, on 8 April 1973, a flood of praise poured out for him and his art. France, the country in which Picasso had lived for almost seventy years, made solemn decisions regarding his legacy. Having the possibility to pay off inheritance taxes through the sale of works of art, the French state and the artist’s family agreed to take from the master’s immense legacy a selection of 200 paintings, 150 sculptures, 3,000 drawings, 88 ceramics and more, and allocate all this to a national museum named after Pablo Picasso, which opened its doors in Paris on 28 September 1985.
The historian Annie Cohen-Solal wanted to re-examine this “great love” France had for Pablo Picasso by thoroughly scrutinizing the archival documents and arrived at unexpected and in som

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