17 August 2008
Artworks Feature: Picasso and His Collection
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Henri Matisse
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Pablo Picasso was an art collector as well as an artist and his favourite objects are now on display at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane.
Picasso collected other people's art that inspired and influenced him. He bought and swapped paintings with his contemporaries—Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Salvador Dali—but also earlier generations of painters; Cezanne, Gauguin, and Renoir for example. And as well as this he collected African and Pacific masks and scuptures.
In the exhibition Picasso and his Collection there's over a hundred of these artworks and objects, as well as Picasso's own paintings, drawings, photographs and sculptures on display.
Julie Copeland takes a tour around the exhibition with the director of the Queensland Art Gallery, Tony Ellwood.
Further Information
Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane
Presenter
Julie Copeland
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