PARIS, FRANCE.-Musee Picasso presents Picasso. The Love of Drawing, on view through January 9, 2006. Exhibition organised by the Musee Picasso and the R鵮ion des mus饳 nationaux, in Paris, and by the Museu Picasso, in Barcelona, where it will be shown from 8 February until 8 May 2006.
To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the museum's opening, the Musee Picasso is presenting a set of works taken from its own collections, with the addition of major pieces from the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, a total of over three hundred and fifty drawings, water colours, gouaches, pastels and collages by the twentieth century's greatest graphic artist.
The exhibition gives visitors an opportunity to see masterpieces they may have seen in earlier exhibitions as well as sheets never shown before and so appreciate once more Picasso?s astounding virtuosity in drawing.