For the first time in Romania, masterpieces from the collection of the Musée Picasso, Antibes come to Timișoara.
From 17 September 2026 to 17 January 2027, Art Encounters presents Picasso en visite, an exhibition organised in partnership with the Musée Picasso, Antibes, bringing together 69 works by Pablo Picasso—paintings, drawings, prints, lithographs and ceramics—presented in Romania for the first time.
The exhibition invites visitors to discover a pivotal chapter in Pablo Picasso's artistic practice: his time in Antibes in 1946, when he began working in the Château Grimaldi. The light of the Mediterranean, nature, mythology and the freedom to experiment opened up a new visual universe, reflected in an exceptional selection of paintings, drawings, prints and ceramics.
Drawn from the collection of the Musée Picasso, Antibes—the first museum in the world dedicated to Pablo Picasso's work—Picasso en visite brings to Timișoara works that reveal the relationship between the artist, a place, and the creative process, in an exhibition presented at the new Art Encounters space.
Curated by Jean-Louis Andral, director of the Musée Picasso in Antibes, the exhibition brings together 69 works by the artist, focusing on his creative years in the south of France. Beyond the artist’s established image, the selection explores the freedom of his brushwork and the way Picasso moves across painting, drawing, printmaking, and ceramics in a continuous process of reinvention. Mythological motifs, hybrid figures, and transformed forms reveal an experimental and surprisingly contemporary artist. After his time at the Château Grimaldi in Antibes, Picasso donated the works he created there to the city, and in 1966 the building became the Musée Picasso, the world’s first museum dedicated to the artist; its collection remains one of the most important testaments to the freedom Picasso embraced throughout his life and career.
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Picasso en visite
This catalog, which complements the exhibition, is structured as a thematic labyrinth that invites readers to explore it and discover information, images, and texts about the life and work of one of the most important, controversial, and inspired artists of all time: Pablo Picasso.
The focus of the exhibition "Picasso en visite", brilliantly curated by Jean-Louis Andral, and, of course, that of this catalog, is on the works Picasso created during his travels to Antibes, as well as on the works he later donated to the museum. The most significant period covered here is that of the studio at the Château de Grimaldi, where the artist worked fervently in 1946, experimenting extensively and allowing himself to be swept up by the Mediterranean light, the spirit of the place, and the freedom inspired by the sea.