picasso exhibition at tate liverpool

By Catherine Jones on Jul 16, 09 08:08 AM

As you may have seen by now, Tate Liverpool is following its major Klimt exhibition of culture year with an even bigger show dedicated to Pablo Picasso.
It's testament to the ambition and hard work of the folk at the Albert Dock gallery that next summer 150 artworks drawn from some of the world's top collections will be heading for the Mersey waterfront.

Apparently Tate Liverpool bosses have been "secretly" planning the Picasso: Peace and Freedom show for many years.
It won't look at early Picasso (it always seems strange to talk about 'early' or 'late' in a career which actually spanned the best part of eight decades. How early? How late?!) but instead at the period 1944-73 when the artist was concerned with both politics - he joined the Communist Party at the end of the war and remained a member until his death - and the international peace movement.
I wasn't really aware until yesterday that it was Picasso's painting of a dove which became the symbol of the peace movement. And interestingly, that dove was given to him by fellow artist Henri Matisse.....
Anyway, we have a little while to wait for Picasso yet. The exhibition doesn't open until May 2010