Picasso and Picabia Face Off in Aix-en-Provence Summer Show

The Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence is presenting 'Picasso Picabia – Histoire de peinture,' a major summer exhibition juxtaposing works by Pablo Picasso and Francis Picabia. The show runs through September 23, 2018, and features key pieces from the museum's collection alongside exceptional loans from private collectors and international museums and galleries. Both artists, born in the south (Picasso in Málaga, 1881; Picabia in Paris, 1879, of Spanish-Cuban descent), challenged the notion of a singular style. Picasso famously said, 'A painter should never do what people expect of him. The worst enemy of a painter is style.' The exhibition traces their careers from early Cubism around 1907 to their final works—Picabia died in 1953, Picasso in 1973. It reveals surprising similarities and irreconcilable differences, always breaking with the idea of style as a unique creative trademark.