Las Meninas (Picasso)

The suite

Exhibits

The Suite has been shown in the following exhibitions:

• 1959 - Les Menines, Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.
• 1960 - Picasso, Tate Gallery, London.
• 1964 - Pablo Picasso. Exhibition Japan 1964, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.
• 1964 - Pablo Picasso. Exhibition Japan 1964, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan.
• 1964 - Pablo Picasso. Exhibition Japan 1964, Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan.
• 1966 - 1967 - Hommage à Pablo Picasso, Grand Palais, Paris.
• 1967 - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
• 1968 - Museu Picasso, Barcelona.
• 2008 - Forgetting Velázquez: Between 16 May and 28 September 2008, an exhibition at the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, which explains the influence of Velázquez and Picasso's work in other contemporary artists, having as central to *Las Meninas.*The exhibition, divided into two sections, we could see one side works of the seventeenth century Spanish painters such as Velázquez, Juan Carreño de Miranda or Juan Bautista del Mazo, and some of the Las Meninas by Picasso next to more contemporary productions, with works by artists such as Francisco Goya, Michael Craig-Martin, Josep Maria Sert, Richard Hamilton or Thomas Struth, among others. It was curated by Gertje Utley and Malén Gual.

However, there are several works from theSuitethat have been part of other exhibitions. Here you will find the most relevant:

• 1980 - Picasso: A Retrospective, MoMA, Nova York.
• 1981 - Picasso 1881-1973. Exposición Antológica, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid.
• 1985 - La peinture après 1940. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
• 1988 - Picasso in the Soviet Union. Pushkin Museum, Moscou
• 2006 - Picasso. Tradición y vanguardia. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
• 2008 - Picasso et les Maîtres. Grand Palais, Paris
• 2009 - Picasso: Challenging the past. National Gallery of London
• 2010 - Picasso: Peace and Freedom. Tate Liverpool

Other versions

Velázquez's Las Meninas have served as inspiration not only to Picasso. The first follower of Velazquez was certainly his son-in-law Juan Bautista del Mazo, court painter to Philip IV in 1661. In the portrait of the Infanta Margarita of Spain, 1666, in the backplane, man can see the placement of Charles II and the dwarf Mari Bárbola in a scene similar to Las Meninas by Velazquez. There is a list of some works of artists who also have versioned Las Meninas throughout art history.

• Claudio Bravo, La vista
• Herman Braun-Vega decided to work on Las Meninas after visiting Picasso Museum in Barcelona in 1968 :
  • Velázquez mis à nu accompagné des menines (1968), Museum of Antioquia
  • Velásquez Going to His Easel (From the series Velázquez Stripped Bare) (1968), Blanton Museum of Art
  • Les invités sur l'herbe d'après Vélasquez, Manet et Picasso (1970), Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
  • ¡Caramba! (Cézanne, Goya, Ingres, Matisse, Picasso, Rembrandt, Vélasquez) (1983), private collection
  • Il est interdit de s'arrêter (Velazquez) (1984), private collection
  • Hotel du Sud (Vélasquez, Ingres, Manet et Matisse) (1985), private collection
  • Dual insight into the West (Velazquez and Picasso) (1987), private collection
  • La familia Informal (Vélasquez, Goya, Picasso) (1992), Ralli Museum (Marbella)
  • Concierto en el mercado (Vélasquez) (1997), private collection
  • Juan Pareja revisiting Picasso Meninas (Velazquez) (2000), private collection
• Louis Cane, Meninas squatting (1982), private collection
• Philippe Comar, Las Meninas (1978), Centre Georges Pompidou
• Equipo Crónica, El recinte (1971), private collection
• Salvador Dalí, Velázquez pintant la infanta Margarida amb les llums i les ombres de la seva pròpia glòria (1958), Salvador Dalí Museum
• Edgar Degas, Variation on Velázquez's Las Meninas (1857), Neue Pinakothek
• Antonio de Felipe, In-Fanta de llimona II (1992), Iria Souto Catoira collection
• Luca Giordano, Hommage to Velázquez (National Gallery of London
• Alberto Gironella, Cambra Oscura (1975), private collection
• Francisco de Goya, Las Meninas (1780–85) Biblioteca Nacional de España
• Richard Hamilton, Interior II (1964) Tate
• Richard Hamilton, Las Meninas of Picasso (1973) Tate
• Yasumasa Morimura, Daughter of Art History (Princess A), private collection
• Vik Muniz, Las Meninas by Velazquez (the chocolate paintings)(2002)
• Jorge Oteiza, Hommage to Las Meninas (1958), Fundació Juan March
• Giulio Paolini, Contemplator Enim VI (fuori l'autore) (1991)
• Antonio Saura, Infanta i Saba (1962)
• Josep Maria Sert, Figurí per a Las Meninas (1916), Fundación Juan March
• Soledad Sevilla, Las Meninas Núm. IX (1981-1983)
• John Singer Sargent, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
• Thomas Struth, Museo del Prado 6 (2005), private collection
• Franz von Stuck, Family group (1909), Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
• Eve Sussman, 89 segons at the Alcázar (2004), private collection
• Manolo Valdés, Reina Marianna (1989), private collection
• Jeff Wall, Picture for Women (1979), Centre Georges Pompidou
• James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Whistler in his studio (1865)
• Joel-Peter Witkin, Las Meninas. New Mexico (1987)

References

Bibliography

• Velázquez: Painter and Courtier. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986.
• Translated by Valerie Collins as Picasso's Las Meninas. Meteroa, 2001.

References

1. [http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/en/collection/mpb70-450.html Artwork commented ast Museu Picasso's website]
2. [[#Raf01. Rafart 2001]]
3. MacLaren, Neil. The Spanisch School, National Gallery.. Londres: Catalogues Rev. Allan Braham. National Gallery, 1970, 52-53. {{ISBN. 0-947645-46-2
4. (2014-02-26). "Guía #74: 68, 70, 72. Bienales de Arte Coltejer". Museo de Antioquia.
5. ["Velázquez yendo a su caballete (De la serie Veláquez mis à nu) [Velásquez Going to His Easel (From the series Veláquez Stripped Bare)]]"](https://blanton.emuseum.com/objects/14098/velazquez-yendo-a-su-caballete-de-la-serie-velaquez-mis-a-n).
6. "Les invités sur l'herbe {{!}} Paris Musées".
7. Braun-Vega, Herman. (1983). "¡Caramba!".
8. Braun-Vega, Herman. (1984). "Il est interdit de s’arrêter (Velazquez)".
9. Camnitzer, Luis. (Winter 1992). "Recent Latin American Art, Herman Braun-Vega". Art Journal.
10. (2012-12-03). "Nude Art Today". Patou.
11. "''La familia informal'' by Braun-Vega {{!}} Outstanding Works {{!}} Ralli Museum".
12. Braun-Vega, Herman. (1997). "Concierto en el mercado (Vélasquez)".
13. Braun-Vega, Herman. (2000). "Juan Pareja revisiting Picasso Meninas (Velazquez)".