Join us on a private tour of “Picasso in Fontainebleau”, led by curator Anne Umland (prior to the museum’s opening).

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the artist’s death, MoMA’s exhibition is included in the international Picasso Celebration 1973–2023, with the exceptional support of the Musée National Picasso–Paris.

Pablo Picasso spent much of the summer of 1921 in a garage. Inside this unlikely studio in a rented villa in Fontainebleau, France, he worked prolifically to create a startling body of work. Among his most astonishing creations were two radically different, six-foot-high canvases that he painted side-by-side within weeks of each other: Three Women at the Spring and Three Musicians. Picasso in Fontainebleau reunites these two monumental paintings, along with other works from the artist’s pivotal three-month stay at the improvised studio, complemented by photographs and archival documents. Rarely seen photographs of the studio and the Picasso family further contextualize the artist’s day-to-day life and artistic practice. The exhibition also explores new discoveries about the process and experimental spirit that mark Picasso’s work in Fontainebleau.

Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019

All invitations are personal and non-transferable.

Image: Pablo Picasso, Three Women at the Spring, Fontainebleau, summer 1921, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Allan D. Emil © 2024 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York