Picasso: Printmaker at the British Museum

Name: Picasso: Printmaker
Start: 2024-11-07
End: 2025-03-30
Location: British Museum

Where? British Museum, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury When? 7th November 2024 to 30th March 2025 10 AM to 5 PM (Mon-Thu, Sat-Sun); 10 AM to 8.30 PM (Fri); Last entry 15 mins before closing Price? £11 · See britishmuseum.org Parking: Nearby car parks Buses: 1, 7, 8, 10, 14, 19, 24, 25, 29, 38, 55, 59, 68, 73, 91, 98, 134, 168, 188, 242, 390, X68 Bus fares Trains: The closest station is Tottenham Court Road Central Elizabeth Northern Other nearby stations: Holborn and Russell Square Train fares

The British Museum is putting on an exhibition that focuses on Pablo Picasso's prints, offering insights into his life and the complex relationships that he formed with women and other artists.

As one of the most inventive and influential artists the world has ever known, Picasso made over 2,400 prints during the course of his career - from his early years living in Paris right up to his final years in the South of France.

The British Museum holds the UK's largest collection of Picasso's prints, allowing the viewer to follow his changing approach and different techniques across the decades.

Beginning in the early 1900s before his breakthrough painting Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), it then moves onto a selection of etchings from the famous Vollard Suite (1930s), that shine a light on his tumultuous personal life.

Following the war Picasso experimented with lithography and linocuts, and the exhibition highlights his recurring themes of love and sex, bullfighting and the circus. The exhibition concludes with a selection of prints from the 347 Suite (1968) which he completed in a remarkable burst of creativity at the age of 86.

What the critics say...

The Guardian: ★★★★★ "Picasso is at one with the print medium"; The Telegraph: ★★★★★ "A revelatory exhibition"; The Times: ★★★★ "Thrilling - a master at work"