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A banquet for Picasso -
Mr. Iturrino raised the glass for Picasso, the only painter whom he admires and whom he envies
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Picasso and BarcelonaBarcelona is key to understanding Pablo Picasso's pictorial evolution (1881-1973). He arrived at the city with thirteen years, in 1895. He did so with his family, after the father got a job as a drawing professor at the School of Fine Arts of Barcelona (popularly known as La Llotja). The personal involvement Picasso had in order to bring to the city the first museum dedicated to the artist is a clear example of this fruitful relationship. -
The Young Ladies of Avinyó
The artist from Malaga liked to walk around Barcelona`s old town. Day and night. One of the streets that most surprised him was La Rambla and its surroundings. The visits to the cabaret Eden Concert or the brothels on Avinyó Street are only two examples. Already as a consecrated artist, he would return on the occasion of the premiere of the Parade ballet at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in 1917. He would arrive accompanied by his future wife: the Russian dancer Olga Koklova. He designed the sets of the Parade company owned by businessman Sergei Diaghilev. -
Picasso and MiróOn the occasion of Picasso's visit to Barcelona in 1917, his Barcelona friends organized a banquet in one of the most prestigious restaurants on La Rambla: the late Lyon d'Or (next to the Teatre Principal). There, he was reunited with the basque painter Francisco Iturrino. They had both exhibited together in Paris in 1901. Joan Miró did not attend the banquet, although he would visit the Malaga artist in the French capital in 1919. Miró brought him an ensaimada. This was commissioned by Picasso's mother, who maintained a close friendship with Miró's mother.
