Picasso in 90 masterworks in Verona show

(ANSA) - Rome, October 10 - Ninety masterpieces, nearly one for each year of his life, have been chosen to illustrate the genius of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso in a show opening October 15 at Verona's AMO museum in the Forti Palace.
    The exhibition, titled "Picasso: Figures (1906-1971)", includes sculptures and paintings on loan from the Musee Picasso in Paris.
    It traces the artist's creative journey from Cubism to Surrealism through to a revolutionary concept in forms that went unmatched throughout the 20th century.
    The retrospective was curated by Musee Picasso curator Emilie Bouvard and organised by the Arthemisia Group in collaboration with the Musee Picasso.
    Bouvard chose the most significant works in the museum's collection to offer the visitor a synthesis of the artist, beginning with the 1907 painting 'Les Demoiselles d'Avignon', to 1909's 'Seated Nude' and later the small 1931 canvas 'The Kiss'.
    Later works from 1937 - 'The Weeping Woman' and 'Portrait of Marie-Thérèse' - trace Picasso's metamorphosis in representing the human form, while his art traversed pre-Cubism, Cubism, Classicism and Surrealism, reaching a new concept of figure and form in the post-WWII era that was simultaneously constructive and destructive.
    The exhibition is divided into six sections, ending with the section titled "Painter and Model", which contains the most extreme synthesis of his work, documenting his fraught and tragic relationships with women.