February 13th, 2011 
davidguide Although many of Picasso’s earliest experiments depicting the guitar were ephemeral assemblages that no longer exist, he did photograph them in his Paris studio, and some of them are on display.
Museum of Modern Art in New York presents “Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914″ , an exhibition of some 65 collages, constructions, drawings, mixed-media paintings and photographs that takes place from February 13th to June 6th, 2011.
Sometime between October and December 1912, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) made a guitar. Cobbled together from cardboard, paper, string, and wire, materials that he cut, folded, threaded, and glued, Picasso’s silent instrument resembled no sculpture ever seen before.
In 1914 the artist reiterated his fragile papery construction in a more fixed and durable sheet metal form. These two Guitars , both gifts from the artist to MoMA, bracket an incandescent period of material and structural experimentation in Picasso’s work.
“Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914″ explores this breakthrough moment in 20th-century art, and the Guitars’ place within it. Bringing together some 70 closely connected collages, constructions, drawings, mixed-media paintings, and photographs assembled from over 30 public and private collections worldwide, this exhibition offers fresh insight into Picasso’s cross-disciplinary process in the years immediately preceding World War I.
Although many of Picasso’s earliest experiments depicting the guitar were ephemeral assemblages that no longer exist, he did photograph them in his Paris studio, and some of these images are on display, along with some paintings that have never been seen in the United States before.
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