An exhibition of works by two major Spanish artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró, will be inaugurated at the Grand Master’s Palace in Valletta today.

Pablo Picasso’s Taureau ailé contemplé par quatres enfants (Winged Bull Watched by Four Children), 1934, which forms part of the Vollard Suite.Pablo Picasso’s Taureau ailé contemplé par quatres enfants (Winged Bull Watched by Four Children), 1934, which forms part of the Vollard Suite.

Titled Picasso and Miró: The Flesh and the Spirit, it forms part of a major international project titled Picasso-Méditerranée, an initiative of the Musée National Picasso-Paris, which is an international cultural event being held from spring 2017 to spring 2019.

Over 60 cultural institutions have come together to draw up a programme around the Mediterranean work of Picasso. This journey into the creation of the artist and across the places which inspired him aims at strengthening ties between all the shores.

The exhibition comprises a suite of a 100 etchings produced by Picasso in the 1930s for art dealer Ambrose Vollard and over 40 paintings by Miró, in a bid to explore the different possibilities which modern art offered them. The exhibition is being brought to Malta by Fundación Mapfre in collaboration with Patrimonju Malti and the Office of the President of Malta.

The exhibition opens to the public tomorrow and runs until June 30.

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