Museu Picasso Barcelona
© Sucesión Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid, 2023
The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, the Minister of Culture and Sport, Miquel Iceta, the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, and the French Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malak, today visited the exhibition "Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler: art dealer and publisher" at the Museu Picasso in Barcelona. The exhibition is co-produced by the Centre Pompidou and is part of the official programme of the Picasso Celebration 1973-2023, the tribute that both countries are paying to Picasso on the 50th anniversary of his death, which falls on 8 April.
Pedro Sánchez, Miquel Iceta, Emmanuel Macron and Rima Abdul Malak took a chronological tour of the three Parisian galleries of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler: the "petite galerie", the Simon gallery and the Louise Leiris gallery, and explored the transcendental role that this figure played in Picasso's artistic and professional career.
The visit took place after the Spanish-French summit that Pedro Sánchez and Emmanuel Macron held in Barcelona, a meeting that followed the one they held in March in Montauban.
As on that occasion, Pedro Sánchez and Emmanuel Macron were able to further deepen the close relationship that unites them and address issues of common interest, such as the construction of the hydro-product that will connect Barcelona and Marseille, which will make Spain the first renewable hydrogen hub in the world.
The ties that unite Spain and France can be seen in both the exhibition and the Picasso Celebration 1973-2023 project: "Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler: Dealer and Publisher" is the result of collaboration between the Museu Picasso Barcelona and the Centre Pompidou, while the Picasso Celebration 1973-2023 is an initiative of the Spanish and French governments, organised by the Spanish National Commission and the Musée national Picasso Paris.
The exhibition "Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Dealer and publisher", open to the public from 2 December to 19 March, and curated by Brigitte Leal, offers the public a journey to discover who Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (Mannheim, 1884 - Paris, 1979) was, a dealer, gallery owner and biographer, but, above all, a great friend of Picasso, whom he met in 1907 and who had a notable influence on his career as an artist.
Exceptional in all his facets, his relevance in the framework of the Picasso Celebration 1973-2023 was his outstanding work as one of the main disseminators of Cubism as Picasso's dealer and for his relationship with Barcelona.
The exhibition invites visitors to immerse themselves in Kahnweiler's personality and all the facets of his activity, also as a publisher and bibliophile, through an exceptional selection of works by the artists he worked with, without forgetting his ties with Catalan artists and his participation in the creation of the Museu Picasso in Barcelona.