Roberta González (1909-1976), Julio González’s only daughter, was a painter and draftswoman. After a training and early period strongly influenced by her father’s work, Roberta González begins to liberate and affirm herself in the postwar period. Between the 1950s and the 1970s, her work undergoes a remarquable transformation. Though her postwar paintings are quite dark […]
Julio González’s sculptures and drawings were presented in two major art fairs in early 2020, namely ARCO Madrid and TEFAF Maastricht. ARCO, a vast contemporary art fair, took place in Madrid from Feb. 26 through March 1st. Two sculptures were present: Le Front (1934-36) at the galería Adolfo Cayón, and Grande Vénus (1936) at the […]
New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has reopened its doors to the public after massive renovations. The exhibition space has been vastly expanded and the display of the collection “remixed” according to chronological and thematic considerations. Now on the display on the fifth floor devoted to art from 1880 to the 1940s is […]
The fourth tome of Julio González’s new catalogue raisonné has been released. It covers his production from 1925-1933, a decisive time for his work. Indeed, it is during these years that González decides to abandon painting and to devote himself entirely to sculpture, his true vocation. After the publication of a first catalogue raisonné devoted […]
“Picasso. Magic Paintings”, the current exhibition at the Musée Picasso Paris (through February 23, 2020), explores a series of paintings created by Picasso between 1926-1930, baptized his “magic paintings” by art critic and galerist Christian Zervos. Filled with strange figures, these works testify to the influence of surrealism and contemporary psychoanalytic theory of Freud and […]
“Hans Hartung, ou la fabrique du geste” is a major retrospective held at the Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (MAMVP) from October 11, 2019 through March 1, 2020. The first in 50 years, the show is an ideal occasion to retrace not only Hartung’s impressive career, but also the important artistic and […]
Four drawings by Julio González are currently displayed at the Arkas Art Center in Turkey in the exhibition Picasso et les arts du spectacle which opened September 18 (through January 6, 2020). This exhibition explores the place of the performing arts in Picasso’s work, from theater to the corrida, and forms part of the ambitious […]
This September, French high school students will discover González’s Tête Montserrat criant (1942) on the pages of their French textbook (2nde, éditions Hattier, 2019). This powerful sculpture of a Catalan peasant woman screaming in rage and despair at the injustices of war serves to illustrate a texte by Wajdi Wouawad, Incendies (2003), which recounts the horros of […]
For the first time, Brazil is discovering the work of Julio González, thanks to the retrospective “Julio González. Space and Matter” which opened on June 4 at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in collaboration with the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) and the Fondation Abertis, and with the support of Arteris. […]
The Fondation Maeght (Saint-Paul-de-Vence) pays tribute in its current exhibition, “The Spirit of a Collection: Donations”, to the generous donations it has received over the years from artists, friends and family. It recognizes the importance of these donations in helping the Fondation constitute one of Europe’s most important collections of modern and contemporary painting, sculpture, […]
