300 Picasso works to go on display in US

The exhibition showcases three hundred paintings, sculptures and ceramics.

New York: Three hundred paintings, sculptures, ceramics as well as prints by Spanish master Pablo Picasso - some never before seen in their entirety - will be the highlight of a three-month-long exhibition here.

"Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art" from April 27-August 1 will feature 34 paintings, 58 drawings, a dozen sculptures and ceramics, and an extensive selection of prints (some 200 from a total of 400), all acquired by the museum over the past 60 years. According to the organisers, the exhibition encompasses the key subjects for which Picasso is famous: the pensive harlequins of his Blue and Rose periods, the faceted figures and tabletop still lives of his Cubist years, the monumental heads and classicizing bathers of the 1920s, the raging bulls and dreaming nudes of the 1930s, and the rakish musketeers of his final years. Complementing the presentation of the artist`s works will be photographs of Picasso by Man Ray, Brassai, Arnold Newman, David Douglas Duncan, and others, all drawn from the museum`s collection. The exhibition is organized by Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Chairman, with Susan Alyson Stein, Curator, both of the Metropolitan`s Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art. "Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art" will be accompanied by the first comprehensive catalogue of the musuem`s collection of works by the master. This illuminating publication has been prepared by members of the museum`s curatorial and conservation staff under the direction of Picasso scholar Gary Tinterow, who edited the catalogue and wrote the introduction. PTI