The Fine Arts Museum of Lyon has organized an exhibition that sheds new light on the important place of the theme of the bather in Pablo Picasso’s work over the course of his extraordinary and long career. Picasso’s works are accompanied by creations by his predecessors, his contemporaries and contemporary artists, which testify to the […]

Julio and Roberta González are represented in the Pompidou Center Malaga’s temporary exhibition which retraces a century of Spanish art, from Joan Miró to Miquel Barceló. This exposition shows the crucial place occupied by Spanish artists in the development of avant-garde artistic movements throughout the 20th century, from cubism and surrealism to abstraction, and how […]

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 […]

For the first time in 50 year, Paris is hosting an important retrospective on the abstract artist Hans Hartung at the Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (MAMVP) from October 11, 2019 through March 1, 2020. Comprised of some 300 works, the exhibition retraces the entirety of Hartung’s career. It presents the German-born […]

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. […]