Florence fetes Picasso in major exhibit

(ANSA) - Florence, August 27 - A major exhibition devoted to the work and era of Pablo Picasso will go on show September 20 to January 25 at Florence's Palazzo Strozzi. The exhibition titled Picasso and Spanish Modernity covers the period between 1910 and 1963, and will feature some 90 paintings, sculptures, drawing, and engraving by the Spanish master as well as contemporaries such as fellow cubist Juan Gris and surrealists such as Joan Miro' and Salvador Dali'.
    The works on loan from Madrid's Reina Sofia Museum will include a vast selection of Picasso's preparatory drawings and engravings for his masterpiece Guernica (1937), the monumental painting credited with bringing the Spanish Civil War to the world's attention. Also on view will be Picasso's Head of a Woman (1910), in which the artist broke new ground in terms of creating three-dimensionality on a flat surface, his Portrait of Dora Maar (1939), and The Painter and the Model, from 1963.
    The show curated by Eugenio Carmona also includes Miro's Siurana, the Path (1917) and Figure and Bird in the Night (1945) as well as Dali's Harlequin (1927).