Picasso in Fontainebleau

Horror and delight commingle in the enormous, faux-neoclassical painting “Three Women at the Spring” (1921), on display as part of moma’s “Picasso in Fontainebleau”…Two dimensions have never looked hardier (even the clothes have breaths and heartbeats!), because everything this painter sees is alive.–Jackson Arn “New Yorker”With its panoply of studies and failed artworks, the show sands down the notion that Picasso produced masterpieces overnight, that his first stroke was his best stroke.–Alex Greenberger “ARTnews”Brilliantly conceived, beautifully executed exhibition.–Lance Esplund “Wall Street Journal”The two versions of Three Musicians and of Three Women at the Spring, however radically different Picasso’s treatment of the twelve figures they include, are all variations on closely related themes: the trio or threesome as a kind of community; the monumentality of foursquare figures enclosed in a foursquare space; the concreteness of sharp-edged flat color shapes versus the concreteness of clearly delineated volumes.–Jed Perl “New York Review of Books”Thoughtful and ambitious, Picasso in Fontainebleau is a wonderful take on one of the best-known artists of the 20th century. It also offers a rare opportunity to enter the mind of the genius, one that probably will only be available once.–Veronica Esposito “Guardian”

Anne Umland is The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Cindy Albertson is Conservator of Modern and Contemporary Paintings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Anny Aviram is Senior Paintings Conservator at MoMA.

Lee Ann Daffner is a Photography Conservator at MoMA.

Michael Duffy is a Paintings Conservator at MoMA.

Emilie Faust is an Paintings Conservator, the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte.

Francesca Ferrari is a former Mellon-Marron Research Consortium Fellow in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA.

Starr Figura is Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at MoMA.

Alexandra Morrison is Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA.

Erika Mosier is a Conservator at MoMA.

Rachel Mustalish is a Paper Conservator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.