New Delhi: It is rare to have works of international artists put up for show in India. So, when Pablo Picasso comes calling, it's a treat for art connoisseurs.
CNN-IBN art correspondent, Sahar Zaman, brings you a special peek into the Picasso exhibition at Vadehra Art Gallery in the Okhla Industrial Area on Wednesday.
"There are great drawings from the Blue period and Cubism. The collection is very representative," artist Anjali Ela Menon said.
The Vadehra art gallery has brought together these works through the Grosvenor Gallery in London and this is just the beginning.
"Our aim is to get Picasso's oils. This is the first in a series of exhibitions not only by us but by several other museums," Conor Macklin from Grosvenor Gallery, London said.
The month-long exhibition will display about 40 works of the artist. These would include nine drawings, 11 lithographs, seven etchings, four aquatints, two linocuts, two round dish prints and a set of eight ceramic plates.
While 2002 saw an extensive Picasso show called Metamorphosis at New Delhi's National Museum, where some 122 works were shown, this is the first time that a private gallery has brought an important European master and, that too, for sale.
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor. One of the most recognised figures in 20th Century art, he is best known as the co-founder, along with Georges Braque, of Cubism.
The two artists worked side by side, both experimenting with a system which sought to totally flatten space.
One of the primary goals of Cubism was to depart from the traditional understanding of perspective and spacial cues.
Their early experiments with the style uses extremely bright colors, hard edged forms, and flattened space.
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