Picasso and the secrets of Cypriot ceramics

Although Picasso never visited Cyprus, his work reveals an unexpected fascination with Cypriot antiquities. A little-known relationship, in fact: both for his facet as a ceramist —often eclipsed by the strength of his Cubist painting— and for Cypriot art itself, still little present in the European artistic narrative. In Picasso Cyprus. Encounters with Mediterranean Ceramics, the Picasso Museum delves precisely into this unknown side, to discover the pictorial beauty and uniqueness of the ceramics of this Mediterranean island, where human and animal figures merge. The artist discovered these works through nearby museum collections, such as that of the Louvre, and specialized publications of the time, becoming so fascinated that some influences can be traced in his own work.