Pablo Picasso’s final years (1881-1973) were a coda on a glittering and influential career across a number of mediums and movements. At the end, was Picasso at the height of his powers? Was he more of a celebrity than the force he was at earlier times? Did he still have the ability to move, shock and inspire? The works on display show an artist still exploring his practice and revisiting his signature subjects and styles the show should present a chance to see how time and experience matured this singular artists vision.
Press release Pablo Picasso At PoMo
Since opening its doors to the public for the first time this spring, PoMo – a new museum of modern and contemporary art in Norway’s coastal city of Trondheim – is pleased to launch its first monographic exhibition, exploring Pablo Picasso’s final decade. Examining the tension between the deconstruction of figurative subjects and the materiality of paint and canvas, the exhibition will celebrate the significance of Picasso’s late work and highlight the artist’s formative impact on, and contribution to, Modernism. ‘The Code of Painting’ will bring together more than 50 paintings and a series of 13 hand-painted ceramic plates to Trondheim for the first time.
1 August – 26 October 2025
Pablo Picasso At PoMo, Trondheim
www.pomo.no
Images courtesy of Rees & Co, and Pomo Trondheim
Pablo Picasso
Woman with Bird
Mougins, 7 April 1971 (I)
Modified oil on canvas
91.5 x 72.5 cm
Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, Madrid
© FABA Photo : Marc Domage
© Succession Pablo Picasso / BONO, Oslo 2025
Pablo Picasso
Head of a Woman with a Hat
Mougins, 7 July 1971
Modified oil on canvas
81 x 65 cm
Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, Madrid
© FABA Photo : Hugard & Vanoverschelde
© Succession Pablo Picasso / BONO, Oslo 2025
Pablo Picasso
Le joueur de cartes II (The Card Player II)
1971
Oil on canvas
114 x 146 x 5.8 cm
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark. Donation: The New Carlsberg
Foundation
Photo: Poul Buchard / Brøndum & Co.
© Succession Pablo Picasso / BONO, Oslo 2025
Pablo Picasso
Plate with Face II
1963
Ceramic, painted and glazed
Diameter: 25.3; Depth: 2.2 cm
The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna – The Batliner Collection
Image: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
© Succession Pablo Picasso / BONO, Oslo 2025
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle
