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"Picasso 1932: Erotic Year", chronicles the
Spanish artist's prolific creativity over those 12 months,
referred to in the art world as his "year of wonders".
Picasso produced more than 300 works of art in 1932 and the
exhibition at Paris' Musee Picasso features over 100 of them.
They include the masterpiece "The Dream" - a highly eroticized
portrait of a sleeping Marie-Therese Walter, who was the
artist's mistress at the time.
Another highlight is "Girl Before a Mirror", which also depicts
Walter.
"We called 1932 an erotic year because Picasso used eroticism as
a driving force in his painting," exhibition curator Virginie
Perdrisot told Reuters.
"These works, mainly the paintings, are loaded with a strong
erotic and sexual power and it is through this erotic power that
Picasso produced even stronger and more expressive artworks."
Many of the works on display are on loan from private
collections or from museums overseas - "Girl Before a Mirror"
rarely leaves the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Picasso is widely considered to be one of the most influential
artists of the 20th century, and 1932 also saw two major
exhibitions of his work, in Paris and Zurich.
French President Emmanuel Macron was accompanied by Picasso's
daughter Maya as he toured the exhibition at the weekend, before
it opens to the public on Tuesday. It will run until Feb. 11.
The artist and sculptor created 13,500 paintings and 300
sculptures, among other artworks, during his lifetime, according
to the official Picasso website. He died in 1973 at the age of
92.
(Writing by Mark Hanrahan in London; Editing by Susan Fenton)
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