Pending
Thought in the continuity of the exhibition Poussin and Love (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, November 26, 2022 - March 5, 2023), this exhibition offers to question the place of Poussin’s heritage in the construction of Picasso’s bacchanalian and erotic imagination. Despite their inaccessibility, the bacchanals of 1944 are the starting point for a reflection on Picasso’s view of Poussin’s work throughout his career and used in his interpretations of the theme of celebrations and Dionysian loves from the beginning of the 1930s until the end of the 1960s. The exhibition will also allow to replace the bacchanals of 1944 within the corpus of works produced by Picasso during the occupation in light of photographs and stories that crystallize the notoriety of the artist at the time of the Liberation.