The Picasso Celebration 1973-2023 has shown more than 70 works unpublished in Spain during the commemoration of the 50th anniversary.

The Picasso Celebration 1973-2023, an initiative promoted by the governments of Spain and France that pays tribute to the artist on the 50th anniversary of his death, has brought together in Spain more than 50 works by the artist that had never before been exhibited in the country, along with 14 others that have never before been shown to the global public.

The commemoration has provided the opportunity to see these works for the first time in the exhibitions of the museums of A Coruña, Madrid, Barcelona and Malaga, allowing to delve into different facets of Picasso's work.

Among the works shown for the first time in public is A esmola/La limosna (1899), from a private collection that was shown at the Museo de Belas Artes in A Coruña in Picasso blanco en el recuerdo azul. Cabeza de mujer (1951), part of the deposit of the Museo Picasso Málaga, has been shown for the first time in Picasso escultor. Matter and body. La Casa Encendida in Madrid, meanwhile, has presented 12 pieces unpublished worldwide in Picasso: Untitled.

In addition to the fundamental role of the Musée national Picasso Paris as a major lender in this commemoration, the international network created for the development of the program has favored the exchange between museums. The Art Institute of Chicago has lent its Model for Chicago Sculpture (1962-1964), both to the Museo Picasso Málaga in Picasso Sculptor. Matter and Body, as well as to MIRÓ-PICASSO at the Museu Picasso Barcelona. In this last exhibition, 10 other pieces unpublished in Spain have also been shown, such as Woman and Guitar (1911-1914) from the Kunstmuseum Basel in Switzerland and Still Life (1914-1915) from the Columbus Art Museum in Ohio.

In the exhibition Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Marchante y editor, at the Museu Picasso Barcelona, 18 works unpublished in Spain could be discovered, among them, the magnificent Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1957) from the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The Museo Picasso Malaga has received The Korean Massacre (1951) from the Museé national Picasso-Paris, which will remain on display at El eco de Picasso until March 31. This work had previously been seen in Spain only twice at the Museu Picasso Barcelona. At the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, 6 unpublished works have been on view, including The Crucifixion (1930) and Woman Seated in a Red Armchair (1932), both from the Musée national Picasso-Paris, and The Family (1920) from the Almine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Foundation.

The exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid features several works never before seen in Spain from international collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), the Museé de l'Orangerie in Paris and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

The Picasso Celebration 1973-2023, which has organized 17 exhibitions in Spain, has managed to bring together a wide variety of works by the artist that the Spanish public had not had the chance to see before. This initiative has offered a broad vision of themes such as the beginnings of cubism, the artist's sculpture and his personal reinterpretation of the genres of the Spanish artistic tradition, among others.