“Picasso: The Last Years, 1963-1973,” opening this month at the Guggenheim Museum, almost didn’t happen. Organized originally by the Grey Art Gallery, a small museum at New York University, and scheduled to open there in November, the show ran into funding problems and, in their wake, postponements. In late December, just as the catalogue was being published, the Grey Art Gallery was forced to cancel—and the Guggenheim, with its far greater resources, stepped in to save the day.[1]

Nothing Picasso ever did is exactly overlooked, but it is significant that the first museum in the United States to plan a show of Picasso’s last works is small, adventuresome, and rather underfunded. In the United States late Picasso does not, generally, get its due. Everybody knows the etchings of Suite 347 and the...

 

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