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www.seattleartmuseum.orgPicasso: Masterpieces from theMusée National Picasso, ParisSEATTLE ART MUSEUM, SEATTLE WA – Oct 8, 2010-Jan 17, 2011 The Musée National Picasso in Parisholds the largest and most comprehensive collection of Pablo Picasso’s artwork in the world. Housedin a converted 17th century mansion, the Museum isundergoing an extensive renovation, making it possiblefor their unprecedented holdings – much of which camefrom Picasso’s personal collection – to tour the globe.With its U.S. debut at the Seattle Art Museum, this exhibitionmarks a rare opportunity to view works from thisstellar collection.Pablo Picasso, the Spanish-born artist best known forhis contribution to the Cubist movement, is easilyregarded as one of the most significant and influentialartists of the 20th century. With a career that spannedeight decades, which included the tumultuous times duringboth World Wars and the Spanish Civil War,Picasso’s creative legacy is defined by his drive towardinventiveness and a fierce need to stay ahead of the curvestylistically. Approximately 75 paintings and sculpturesare complemented by a selection of prints, drawings andphotographs that embody Picasso’s eclectic range ofstyles and dedicated innovations.This large cross-section of work tells the story ofPicasso’s development as an artist and his impact on thehistory of modern art. Over 150 works represent nearlyevery period throughout his long and prolific career. ThePablo Picasso, Paul as a harlequin (1924), oil on canvas[Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA, Oct 8-Jan 17]Collection: Musée National Picasso, Parisexhibition includes iconic paintings like La Celestina (1904) from his Blue Period, the Cubist Man witha Guitar (1911) and a 1970 self-portrait The Matador. Other works convey his evolution toward Cubism,the influences of primitive and African art, and evidence of Neoclassic and Surrealist styles. Allyn Cantor© 2010 ESTATE OF PABLO PICASSO/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS)JEAN-GILLES BERIZZI/RÉUNION DES MUSÉES NATIONAUX/ART RESOURCE, NEW YORKHerringer Kiss Gallery709A 11 Ave SW ✆403-228-4889www.herringerkissgallery.comtues-fri 10am-5:30pm sat 11am-5pm.Thru Sep 11 2010 Art for Food GroupShow and Sale, 2nd annual groupshow featuring gallery artists, proceedsare donated to the Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank; Sep 18-Oct 16 BratsaBonifacho, “Le Select”, as a youngman, the artist frequented Café LeSelect in the Montparnasse district ofParis – paintings capture the essenceand ambience of the history-infusedpremises, as well as half forgotten verbalvignettes selected from polyglotconversations; Oct 23-Nov 20 MarjanEggermont, “Ultraflat”, return to ‘le platpays’, and the mountains, molehills,sky, fields, colours and the falsehood ofmemories – series explores variousmaterials: steel, canvas, gun blue,paint, concrete, resin and silver leaf;Marianne Lovink, “Permutations”,new delicate, floating cut-steel ‘drawings’,range from organic cellularstructures to diagrammatic forms ofscientific research data.★ The New Gallery (TNG)Unit 212, 100 7th Ave SW✆403-233-2399www.thenewgallery.orgtues-fri 11am-5pm sat 12pm-6pm.Free admission. Sep 2-Oct 2 NancyNisbet, “Contours in the Crosshairs”,site-specific installation combiningvideo projection, glass sculpture andstill images; Oct 7-Nov 6 AndrewForster, “Duet”, performance-basedvideo installation re-enacts the movementsof a young Palestinian boystopped at an Israeli army checkpointwith a suicide bomb attached to hisbody, presented in conjunction withM:ST 5.NEWZONES Gallery ofContemporary Art730 11th Ave SW ✆403-266-1972www.newzones.comtues-fri 10:30am-5:30pm sat 11am-5pm. Sep 18-Oct 16 Bradley Harms,“Maximalism and the New Simplicity”,new paintings borrow heavily from thetropes of digital reproduction, eachmark is hand applied one-by-one accumulatingin the thousands; John Folsom,“Survey”, artwork promotes ournatural environment as a repository forintrospective thought sense of place.Paul Kuhn Gallery724 11th Ave SW ✆403-263-1162www.paulkuhngallery.comtues-sat 10am-5:30pm and by appt.Sep 11-Oct 9 Takao Tanabe, “PrintRetrospective 1962-2009”; Oct 16-Nov 13 Guido Molinari, “ Paintingsfrom the 1960s”.12 PREVIEW ■ SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2010 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS