Barcelona's Museu Picasso presents the exhibition Devouring Paris. Picasso 1900-1907. The exhibition presents Picasso's artistic evolution from his arrival in Paris in 1900, where he discovered a flourishing international artistic community, up until 1907, when he took on the role of leader of the avant-garde in the French capital.
His first direct contact with the works of artists including Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Steinlen and Forain proved a revelation for the painter. His reaction came immediately in the form both of his discovery of novel pictorial and graphical techniques, and in the adoption of new themes based on his own experiences of modern art and life.
For the first time a key selection of works from Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum will be on display in Barcelona, giving an idea of the Dutch artist's reputation in the Paris of 1900.
