Celebrating Picasso 1973-2023

The 8 April 2023 marks the 50^th anniversary since the death of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. Madrid is set to host many of the activities featured in a programme put together by the French and Spanish governments to honour the occasion.

Organised with the support of renowned cultural institutions in Europe and the USA, Celebrating Picasso 1973-2023 features some fifty exhibitions and events which together provide a historiographical analysis of the artist’s work.

Pablo Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain on 25 October 1881, and died in the French town of Mougins on 8 April 1973. One of the most famous painters in the history of Western art, his free, expressive, multifaceted artistic language continues to influence contemporary art and thinking.

Celebrating Picasso 1973-2023 seeks to showcase the career of the European artist who not only drew on his deep knowledge of heritage and the principles of tradition, but also on his understanding of classicism as an ethical value, in order to create iconic, internationally acclaimed works. Guernica, which has become emblematic of the fight to protect human rights, is an example of one of these pieces.