Picasso: The Mediterranean Years (1945–1962) San Francisco Gummo (1997)

Gummo (1997)

Zao began to seriously contemplate nature in his own work

Gilot was a budding young painter when she met Picasso by chance at a café in 1943

photorealist portraits on paper of a longtime friend paired with ornate gold paintings of wallpaper patterns

exploring the possibilities of terre verte (green earth)

Picasso: The Mediterranean Years (1945–1962) San Francisco Gummo (1997)This poster featuring Femme assise prs de la fentre (1956) was produced in 2010, in conjunction with Picasso: The Mediterranean Years (19451962) at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London. Curated by John Richardson and Bernard Ruiz Picasso, the exhibition focused on the postwar years in which Picasso began to spend more and more time in the South of France, marking a return to the Mediterranean heritage that had nourished some of his most important