Picasso: Clay, Line and Legacy
15 January - 15 March, 2026
Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens
West Palm Beach
This exhibition explores Pablo Picasso’s renaissance in Vallauris from the end of the Second World War to the 1970s, when the environments around the Côte d’Azur became the center of the artist’s late-career experimentation. Working daily between the Madoura pottery workshop and the printmaking studio of Hidalgo Arnéra, Picasso transformed ceramics, linoleum blocks and related graphic surfaces into new stages for modernist invention. The presentation looks closely at these Vallauris-born bodies of work with selected prints and designs from earlier periods, such as the Suite Vollard, and the tapestry composition Femme sur L’Echelle (La Femme aux pigeons; La Fermière) to reveal the extraordinary continuity of his subjects and technical collaborations across three decades.
