Lydia Yanel
Toledo (EFE).- Four photographs from the family album, which reveal the visit that Picasso made in the summer of 1934 with his wife Olga and his son Paulo to the Museo del Greco in Toledo, make up an exhibition that this Toledo museum has inaugurated and will be open until the end of this Picasso Year.
After that visit, in which Picasso toured San Sebastián, Zaragoza, Burgos or Barcelona, the painter from Malaga never returned to Spain. He had said that he would not return until there was democracy, and he passed away in 1973.
The exhibition ‘Picasso. The Secret Visit, 1934 ‘is based on four photographs in the Olga Ruiz-Picasso archive, probably taken by her son, Paulo, who was about 13 years old, during that trip.
Three images, together with the Apostolate of El Greco
Three images (enlarged reproductions of the originals) are located next to the Apostolate of El Greco, a painter whom Pablo Ruiz Picasso admired.
In fact, this space also exhibits a reproduction of the drawing that Picasso painted in 1898, when he was studying in Madrid and escaped to the Prado Museum to meet the masters.
On a sheet of paper, the original of which is kept by the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, the painter from Malaga wrote ‘Greco, Velázquez, inspire me’. So, with R.
The fourth photograph has been located in the anteroom of the multipurpose room, near the Museum’s porch, since it precisely represents Picasso and his wife Olga Khokhlova in that garden. That same year Picasso and Olga separated.
The director of the Museo del Greco, Rosa Becerril, explained at the inauguration that the Museum wanted to “contribute a small grain of sand” to the Picasso Year, with an exhibition “simple but one that makes us very excited because it shows the love that Picasso had towards El Greco”.
Picasso’s 1934 trip to various cities in Spain is documented in articles in the ABC newspaper and his biographer Julián Gallego also spoke of this trip, as did Israel Diana more recently.
This exhibition, which has a “spectacular” setup, as Becerril has defined it, will be open until the end of this Picasso Year.
