Perry Ogden

Blog : Picasso in Monaco

Two Picasso exhibitions at the Forum Grimaldi: 'Picasso in the Cote d'Azur' and 'Picasso from the Nahmad collection'. Both very interesting but I preferred the Cote d'Azur exhibition which documents the summers Picasso spent in the Cote'd'Azur from the Twenties onwards: the houses he stayed in and a selection of works made in them - including the amazing 'Still life with mandolin and guitar' from 1924. The Nahmad family collection is a good overview of Picasso's work - as they seem to have something from every era - but it's a bit of a job lot. You do get a sense though of the many stylistic periods Picasso went through, how prolific he was and how uneven the work is.