Picasso Sculptures

New York City Exhibit

at MoMA

September 14, 2015 — February 7, 2016

A photo essay by Marnie Innes

Female Bather Playing.  Cannes, 1958

Bronze.

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

[with man resting]

Female Bather Playing.  Cannes, 1958

Bronze.

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

[with hand]

Head of a Woman, Mougins, 1962

Painted sheet-metal and iron wire

Musée National Picasso—Paris

Maquette for Richard J. Daley Center Sculpture, 1964

Simulated and oxidized welded steel

The Art Institute of Chicago

Maquette for Richard J. Daley Center Sculpture, 1964

Simulated and oxidized welded steel

The Art Institute of Chicago

Maquette for Richard J. Daley Center Sculpture, 1964

Simulated and oxidized welded steel

The Art Institute of Chicago

[with young woman]

Introductory Notes

by

Marnie Innes

It was the New York Times article by Roberta Smith, "Picasso, Completely Himself in 3 Dimensions," published on 9/10/15, that brought me to the current Picasso sculpture exhibit at MOMA.

You can see from the slides accompanying that article, and from the photographs I couldn't resist taking, how involved viewers were with the energetic, enigmatic presences of these works -- each person I saw who came into the orbit of the joyful, confident creation of "Female Bather Playing," for instance, was smiling her smile.

Many of the sculptures are of human and animal beings that seem to emerge from the inside out, and they were brought to life by Picasso over a long lifetime, 1902-1964.

Here is a small sample—this show is something to see for yourself!