Picasso: Themes and Variations

Picasso: Themes and Variations covers the artist's development as a printmaker from the dawn of the 20th-century until virtually the day he died in 1973. During these eight decades, Pablo Picasso produced many thousands of prints, exploring every technique from copper-plate etching, to lithography, to linoleum cuts--and all points in between. Far from being a "jack of all trades," he mastered them all, then bent them to his will to explore, expand and expound on themes that were of particular interest to him at the time. (Yes, indeed, some themes involved the women who orbited around [and sometimes collided with] his life.)

Picasso: Themes and Variations is comprised of some 100 prints culled from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, which boasts an impressively large collection of Picasso's graphic works. The exhibition was organized by Deborah Wye, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art.