Inspired by... Picasso
Iwona Blazwick, Director of the Whitechapel Gallery
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Iwona Blazwick
Iwona Blazwick began her career as a curator. She was appointed director of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, moved on to be head of exhibitions at Tate Modern until 2001 and then took the helm at the Whitechapel.
Iwona has written books including An Endless Feast, on British situationism; authored many exhibition catalogues; co-edited Tate Modern: the handbook; and edited a directory called Fresh Cream, a "Who's Who" of the Best New Talent in the International Modern Art World (2000).
1. Barbara Hepworth
Group III (evocation) (1952)
White serravezza marble
33 x 76 x 33 cm
Pier Arts Centre, Stromness
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Pier Arts Centre, Stromness
2. Hannah Höch
Aus der Sammlung: Aus einem ethnographischen Museum [From the collection: From an ethnographical museum] (1929)
Collage and gouache on paper
26 X 17.50 cm
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
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Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
3. Barbara Hepworth
Mother and Child (1934)
Ancaster stone
31 x 22 x 20 cm
Wakefield Art Gallery
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Wakefield Art Gallery
4. Sarah Lucas
Pauline Bunny (1997)
Mixed media object
95 x 64 x 90 cm
Tate Modern
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Tate Modern
5. Paula Rego
The Policeman's Daughter (1987)
Oil on canvas
213 x 152 cm
Saatchi Collection
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Saatchi Collection
Picasso's in the UK
Deux Nymphes dans un Arbre (1931)
Etching
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
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Pablo Picasso official website Pallant House
Blind minotaur led by a young girl at night (1934)
Print
Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford
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Pablo Picasso official website Cecil Higgins Art Gallery
Bowl of Fruit, Violin and Bottle (1914)
Oil on canvas
92 x 73 cm
Tate Modern
Drinking minotaur and reclining woman (1933)
19.25 x 27 cm
Courtauld Institute
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Pablo Picasso official website Courtauld Institute Tate Modern
Marie-Therese, en vestale, veillant le Minotaure endormi (1933)
Etching
34.1 x 44.3 cm
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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Pablo Picasso official website Fitzwilliam Museum