Picasso comes to Tate Britain on 15th February, as part of the first ever exhibition exploring his influence on British art. Picasso’s Cubist work was first exhibited here by Roger Fry in 1912, and Picasso himself visited London in 1919 to design scenes and costumes for Diaghilev’s production of The Three-Cornered Hat. Over the succeeding decades Pablo Picasso was to become a folk-demon for artistic conservatives and an opener-up of undreamt of creative spaces for more modern-minded artists.

The 1960 exhibition of his work at the Tate brought thousands into fresh contact with his art, and indeed David Hockney is said to have come eight times to see it. Over 150 works will be displayed in this year’s exhibition – more than sixty Picassos alonside art by Duncan Grant, Wyndham Lewis, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland and David Hockney. Among the works by Picasso will be his Weeping Woman of 1937 and The Three Dancers from 1925. After the exhibition closes in mid-July, it will transfer to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh.

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