Pablo Picasso<br/>
<em>The matador</em> (<em>Le Matador</em>) 4 October 1970<br/>
oil on canvas<br/>
145.0 × 114.0 cm<br/>
Musée national Picasso-Paris<br/>
Donated in lieu of tax, 1979 (MP223​)<br/>
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency, 2022.<br/>
Photo © RMN - Grand Palais - Mathieu Rabeau<br/>
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency, 2022<br/>
Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris/Mathieu Rabeau

Members Exhibition Introduction The Picasso Century

Thu 9 Jun 22, 2.30pm–3.30pm

Pablo Picasso<br/> <em>The matador</em> (<em>Le Matador</em>) 4 October 1970<br/> oil on canvas<br/> 145.0 × 114.0 cm<br/> Musée national Picasso-Paris<br/> Donated in lieu of tax, 1979 (MP223​)<br/> © Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency, 2022.<br/> Photo © RMN - Grand Palais - Mathieu Rabeau<br/> © Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency, 2022<br/> Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris/Mathieu Rabeau
Past program

NGV International

Clemenger BBDO Auditorium
Ground Level

Hearing loops and accessible seating are available.

Booked out

We invite Members to an exclusive Members exhibition introduction of the 2022 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, The Picasso Century, hosted by NGV Senior Curator Miranda Wallace.

The world-premiere exhibition The Picasso Century charts the extraordinary career of Pablo Picasso in dialogue with the many artists, poets and intellectuals with whom he intercepted and interacted throughout the 20th century, including Guillaume Apollinaire, Georges Braque, Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, Françoise Gilot, Valentine Hugo, Marie Laurencin, Dora Maar, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Dorothea Tanning and Gertrude Stein.

Exclusively developed for the NGV by the Centre Pompidou and the Musée national Picasso-Paris, the exhibition features over 70 works by Picasso alongside over 100 works by more than 50 of his contemporaries, drawn from premier French national collections, as well as the NGV Collection.

After attending the Members exhibition introduction at 2:30pm, view the exhibition before it opens to the public at the Members exclusive exhibition preview. Separate ticket required for introduction talk and exhibition preview. To purchase tickets to exhibition preview, click here.

Members Melbourne Winter Masterpieces The Picasso Century