“Picasso the Foreigner” exhibit is on at Rome’s Palazzo Cipolla, March 7th, 2025

Rome’s central Palazzo Cipolla is currently hosting the “Picasso the Foreigner” exhibit until June 29^th, 2025.

 
Pablo Picasso (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, 1973) is quite often regarded as the 20^th century’s most significant painter (he only painted about 15,000 paintings).

 
A creator of the “Cubism” art movement, 100 paintings by the Spanish artist are on display in the “Picasso the Foreigner” exhibit (a theme which is very current with countries like the U.S., and many others around the world, who are staunchly against an increase in their immigration quotas).

Picasso is now a national icon in France but it wasn’t always that way as in 1901 he had been labeled as an “anarchist under surveillance” by the French authorities.  He had never become a French citizen as in 1904 his request for naturalisation had been rejected.  And twenty-five years later Paris’s famous Louvre museum had refused to accept Picasso’s donation of his epic painting, “Demoiselles d’Avignon”, which was instead wholeheartedly accepted by New York’s MOMA.