Picasso. «The Three-Cornered Hat»

A show dedicated to the costumes and set designs made by Picasso for the production of The Three-Cornered Hat, created on the initiative of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The works on display highlight the fruitful collaboration between Picasso and composer Manuel de Falla, and evoke the artistic effervescence of fin-de-siècle Barcelona.

This exhibition of stage sets and costumes Picasso made for Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat is an example of the fertile artistic collaboration between two of the most outstanding Spanish artists of the period. It also provides a glimpse of the artistic spirit of the city of Barcelona in the early twentieth century. The year of their meeting, 1917, was marked by a number of important artistic events, among them the Exposition of French Art at the Palace of Fine Arts held in April.

The selection invites viewers to contemplate the works Picasso made during his 1917 sojourn in Barcelona, and includes one of the masterpieces in the museum's collection, Harlequin, a splendid portrait of Leónide Massine that confirms the close ties between the painter and the Russian choreographer that continued to exist when the two worked together on The Three-Cornered Hat.