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Who was Picasso in the eyes of his peers?

NGV’s winter blockbuster The Picasso Century offers more than a tale of the lone creative genius.

10 Jun 2022 9:04

Celina Lei

Visual Arts

Works by over 60 of Picasso’s peers offer a multi-dimensional understanding of the artist and his era. Image: Marie Laurencin, Apollinaire and his friends, 1909, courtesy of NGV. Picasso is the dark-haired figure sitting centre-right.

This might not be just another Picasso show.

The Picasso Century spans both sides of the ground floor galleries at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) International in loose chronological order, beginning with Pablo Picasso’s move to Paris in 1900, to the final work Bust of a man wearing a hat (Buste d’homme au chapeau) (1969), only years before his passing in 1973, at the age of 91.

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is the Diversity and Inclusion Editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Most recently, Celina was one of three Australian participants in DFAT’s the Future of Leadership program. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_