The museum closes the program of the 50th anniversary of the artist's death with an exhibition at the Reina Sofia of a key period in his life and work.
If we put in a blender the Greco, Ingres, Corot, Cézanne, Gauguin ...; primitive art, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Mesopotamian, Iberian, Catalan Romanesque, Polynesian, black ...; Gertrude Stein, Fernande Oliver, Josep Fontdevila ... would come out some of the works made by Picasso in 1906. Until now, Gósol, the town in the Lleida Pyrenees where the artist went with his then muse-lover Fernande Olivier at the end of May 1906, was attributed to be the 'laboratory' of experimentation where he created a new language that opened the doors of modern art. The couple suddenly returned to Paris (to the Bateau Lavoir, in bohemian Montmartre) in mid-August, due to an outbreak of typhoid fever.
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