"Science and Charity" Revealed

A small exhibition designed to generate knowledge about the emblematic work Science and Charity painted by Picasso in 1897 starting from exhaustive research.

The exhibition sets Picasso's Science and Charity in its social and artistic context, revealing the conceptual and material process of its creation. With the help of technological means, the show also brings to light other aspects usually concealed to viewers. At present kept in the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, Picasso painted Science and Charity in 1897 and that same year the work was awarded an honorific mention at the Fine Arts Exposition Universelle held in Madrid.

The motif of this essential painting produced during his apprenticeship engages with the social realism that pervaded the most conservative circles in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the tradition of the works presented at the Fine Arts exhibitions during the eighteen-nineties.