Picasso to Julie Mehretu

What:
Sketches from a wide selection of internationally acclaimed artists
Where:
British Museum, room 90
When:
7 October 2010 – 25 April 2011
How much:
Free (awesome!)

Showcasing some of the greatest artists of the 20th century, this exhibition begins with Picasso’s study for his masterpiece Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. This piece is widely held as a masterpiece of Cubism, but at the BM’s Picasso to Julie Mehretu we can see the traditionally proportioned figures, before they became the aggressively angular apparitions that came to denote Picasso’s aesthetic revolution.

Picasso to Julie Mehretu also features works by E L Kirchner, Otto Dix, Matisse, Magritte, David Smith and Louise Bourgeois and major contemporary artists such as Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter and William Kentridge.

The exhibition concludes with Julie Mehretu, the Ethiopian-born artist who is one of the stars of the international contemporary art scene with acclaimed solo exhibitions at the Guggenheim in New York and across the world.