Picasso Blue Project

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The Museu Picasso presents an exhibition on the technical studies of the works in the museum collection, as corresponding to the artist’s Blue Period. By means of a didactic, communicative presentation, the exhibition takes us through the main works of the Blue Period in the Museu Picasso collection, beginning with work that preludes this period, such as Still Life (1901), and ending with Roofs of Barcelona (1903). Technology is an essential tool for 21st-century museums. In this case, technological advances have made it possible to build bridges between institutions with important works by Picasso, connecting them while establishing a reasoned narrative of the artist’s Blue Period.

The exhibition includes the Blue Period drawing The Blind Man, now at the Museu Picasso. The recent purchase by the Barcelona City Council was facilitated by the right of the Government of Catalunya to exercise a priority bid on artworks faced with exportation. Picasso made this drawing in 1903, in the midst of the Blue Period; it is unquestionably connected to works from that period, such as The Blind Man’s Meal (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and The Blind Man (Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University). The piece clearly complements the discourse of other works from that crucial moment during the artist’s youth.

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