Pablo Picasso, Femme à l'oiseau (Woman with Bird) April 7, 1971 (I). Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, Madrid
© Succession Picasso/Bildupphovsrätt 2025.
Photo: Marc Domage © FABA
Late Picasso
22.11 2025 – 5.4 2026
Stockholm
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Friday 21 November 2025
Celebrate the opening of “Late Picasso” on Friday 21 November 2025. The preview runs from 18.00 to 20.00, with an opening speech by Moderna Museet’s Director Gitte Ørskou at 18.15. Free admission, no pre-registration required.
By the 1960s, Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) had outlived most of his contemporaries and withdrawn from public life to devote himself entirely to his studio. Working with tireless energy, he often completed several canvases a day, revisiting themes from his past and from the broader European painting tradition. During these years, his art became less about breaking boundaries and more about deep, persistent exploration.
Initially overlooked, Picasso’s late works gained new renewed significance in the 1980s. As painting re-emerged as a dominant medium, a younger generation of artists found inspiration in the expressive freedom of his final decade. Today, they are recognized not only as ground-breaking, but also as a powerful premonition of the artistic expression of later generations.
© Succession Picasso/Bildupphovsrätt 2025.
Photo: Marc Domage © FABA
© Succession Picasso/Bildupphovsrätt 2025.
Photo: Adrien Didierjean © GrandPalaisRmn (Musée national Pablo Picasso)
Picasso’s late works are less concerned with resolution and more with urgency. They are marked by a self-aware theatricality, an embrace of fiction, and a refusal to be polished or conclusive . – Jo Widoff, curator
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Late Picasso is the first major presentation of Pablo Picasso at Moderna Museet in more than thirty years. Here, the artist appears in his last years – from 1963 until his death in 1973. During these years, Picasso’s style became increasingly expressive and uncompromising. His late works combined two distinct ways of painting: one quick and simplified, made up of abbreviations and codified signs; the other bold and expressive, with thick, flowing paint hastily applied.
The exhibition brings together approximately fifty paintings and thirty works on paper. Alongside loans from other collections, the exhibition also features paintings and prints from Moderna Museet’s own holdings.
© Succession Picasso/Bildupphovsrätt 2025.
Photo: Eric Baudouin © FABA
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) was born in Málaga, Spain but lived most of his life in France. Over a career spanning more than seventy years, he produced a remarkable body of work across painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and ceramics, constantly reinventing his style.
Since Picasso’s death in 1973, his legacy has remained both towering and complex – celebrated with near-mythic reverence and examined with increasing critical depth. A key moment in the posthumous reception of Picasso came with the influential 1981 exhibition A New Spirit in Painting at the Royal Academy in London, where Picasso’s works were shown alongside those of contemporary painters such as Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Anselm Kiefer. The exhibition marked a turning point in how Picasso’s late painting was understood—no longer as the work of a fading master, but as a vital precursor to the renewed energy and experimentation of the era.
In more recent years, Picasso’s work has been revisited with greater nuance. As feminist and postcolonial critiques have reshaped the field of art history, scholars and artists alike scholars and artists began to have examined the personal and political dimensions of his work. Today Picasso stands less as an untouchable icon, and more as a figure through whom the complexities and contradictions of modern art are considered.
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The exhibition Late Picasso is organised in collaboration between PoMo, Trondheim; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg; and Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso. The curatorial concept is initiated and organised by PoMo, Trondheim and curated by Dr. Dieter Buchhart and Dr. Anna Karina Hofbauer. The exhibition at Moderna Museet is curated by Jo Widoff.
The exhibition is supported by:
Our warm thanks to Late Picasso Exhibition Circle and the donors:
Pontus Bonnier
Kristina Gustafsson and Åke Bonnier
Lena and Per Josefsson
Per Skarstedt
Anna and Håkan Ekström
Sophie and Svante Påhlson-Möller
Kerstin Bonnier
Christina Staut
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