Western Romania: Special exhibition in Timișoara to include 69 works by Pablo Picasso

20 August 2026 69 works by Pablo Picasso from the collection of the Musée Picasso, Antibes, will be on display in Timișoara, between September 17, 2026, and January 17, 2027, in a special exhibition that inaugurates the new Art Encounters space. The event, titled "Picasso en visite," will include 69 works – paintings, drawings, engravings, lithographs and ceramics. The exhibition starts from a particular moment in the artist’s life and work. “In 1946, Picasso received an invitation to work in the spaces of the Grimaldi Castle, at that time the museum of the region’s history and archaeology. The artist had long dreamed of a place where he could work on a different scale than his studio allowed him to. The light of the Mediterranean, the sea, Greek mythology and the atmosphere of southern Fr