Journey Through the Blue: "La Vie"

Exhibition organised around La Vie , a capital work from Picasso's Blue Period painted in Barcelona in 1903. Connections are established between La Vie and certain drawings in the Museu Picasso's permanent collection, and with the picture hidden beneath the painting Barcelona Rooftops , discovered recently during an exhaustive study.

The results of an exhaustive study of Barcelona Rooftops (Barcelona, 1903) carried out by the Museu Picasso revealed the close ties between an underlying image in this painting that depicts a nude couple, and other drawings from the same period also in the permanent collection, highlighting the chromatic similarities with paintings made late in 1901. The couple portrayed in the underlying image would be a recurring motif in Picasso's production of the years 1902 and 1903, as highlighted by the wonderful composition La Vie painted in Barcelona in 1903 and currently one of the masterpieces in The Cleveland Museum of Art.

The objective of the exhibition is to establish and present the connections between La Vie , Picasso's drawings related to this work and the hidden image beneath Barcelona Rooftops . This technical proposition shows the material obtained during the study of the work carried out by the Department of Preventive Conservation and Restoration of the Museu Picasso.