London exhibit explores Picasso’s paperworks

(24 Jan 2020) LEAD IN: Think you know everything there is to know about Spanish surrealist painter Pablo Picasso? Think again. A new exhibit at London’s Royal Academy of Art is exploring Picasso’s paperwork and reveals an artist that could never stop creating. STORY-LINE: Paper cut-outs, collages, paintings - the paperworks of Pablo Picasso are on show in London. The Royal Academy of Art has gathered over 300 works from the artist’s prolific 80-year career. About 80 percent of works are on loan from the Musée National Picasso-Paris. Highlights include this sprawling long collage, called “Women at Their Toilette“ from winter 1937-38. It’s being exhibited in the UK for the first time in 50 years. “The fact that Picasso was so incredibly prolific in his creative output throughout his entire eight-decade career means that we felt that we were capable of displaying an aspect of his work that people perhaps think that they already know. But it’s so much more than just prints and drawings,“ says