Fri 30 Jun 2023 to Sat 16 Sep 2023
43 Pall Mall, St. James's, SW1Y 5JG Portraiture in Print. Josef Albers | Georg Baselitz | Jim Dine | Richard Hamilton | Pablo Picasso
Tue-Fri 11am-5.30pm, Sat 11am-2pm
Artists: Josef Albers - Georg Baselitz - Jim Dine - Richard Hamilton - Pablo Picasso
Closed 5-31 August
Portraiture in Print brings together five of the most innovative, committed, and greatest graphic artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first century.
The exhibition is centred around seven ground-breaking prints by Pablo Picasso that depict his most enduring muse, Françoise Gilot, who recently passed away. Picasso pays homage to her beauty through a series of portraits that trace the development of their relationship which lasted over ten years.
The exhibition will also feature rare, early studies by Josef Albers and prints in a variety of media by Richard Hamilton, who embraced many time-honoured printing methods as well as inventing a few of his own. More recent works include portrait etchings by Georg Baselitz depicting other artists and a group of intense self-portraits by Jim Dine.
Portraiture in Print coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of Picasso’s death and the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery in London, and their Portrait Mode campaign.