PRESS RELEASE

25 October 2013 at 11.30 am

The exhibition, presenting a first selection of donated images, will be open to the public from 25 October 2013 to 12 January 2014. Museu Picasso Press and Communication Dept. Montcada 15 - 23 08003 Barcelona

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CONTENTS 1. PRESENTATION 2. THE DONATION

Technical details

The selection

Relevance for the museum's collection 3. A BRIEF PROFILE OF DAVID DOUGLAS

DUNCAN

Biography

Bibliography 4. THE SHOW

The Donation of David Douglas Duncan 5. LIST OF RECENT DONATIONS

TO THE MUSEUM

1. PRESENTATION The Museu Picasso, Barcelona presents the donation made by David Douglas Duncan – a photojournalist of international renown and a friend of Pablo Picasso's – of a set of 161 photographs selected by Duncan himself and donated on occasion of the 50th anniversary of the museum opening. A first selection of 64 of these pictures has given shape to The Donation of David Douglas Duncan, which will be open to the public from 25 October 2013 to 12 January 2014 in the galleries that welcome the museum's temporary exhibitions. The incorporation of this set of photographs, taken by David Douglas Duncan between the years 1956 and 1962, enhances the museum's documentary collection. The pictures are a fine example of the close ties between photographer and artist and reveal, on the one hand, everyday scenes of Picasso and his family – particularly with Jacqueline, his last wife – and, on the other, bear exceptional witness to the artist's creative processes. We should like to thank David Douglas Duncan for his generosity, enthusiasm and involvement with the Museu Picasso, Barcelona.

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2. THE DONATION

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In October 1996 David Douglas Duncan donated his personal archive to the Harry Ransom Center, at the University of Texas, Austin, that also keeps the photographer's negatives and has produced the digital prints, printed by the well-known Parisian photographic laboratory Central Dupon Images, under the supervision of Jean-Françoise Leroy (who has conceived and directed the famous VISA pour l’image photojournalism festival held in Perpignan). David Douglas Duncan's donation to the Barcelona museum is a tribute to the memory of his friendship with Pablo and Jacqueline Picasso, with the artist's children Claude and Paloma Ruiz-Picasso and with Jacqueline's daughter, Catherine Hutin.

Author:

David Douglas Duncan, with the exception of the picture of Picasso and Duncan, taken by photographer Gjon Mili.

Characteristics:

The donation consists of 161 b/w photographs, modern digital prints on Inkjet Gold Fibre Silk paper, 50 x 60 cm.

Date:

Photographs taken between 1956 and 1962.

Provenance:

David Douglas Duncan

The Selection To quote David Douglas Duncan, the selection encompasses the foremost photographs he ever took of the artist. These are pictures of his life with Jacqueline and document what he considers to be the best period in Picasso's life, the years he spent at La Californie, his house in Cannes. According to Duncan, the early days of their friendship, in the years 1956 and 1957, clearly revealed the artist's zest for life in the company of his offsprings and he is still moved when he remembers the wonderful dinners held in Picasso's kitchen. All in all, it was well worth the effort. Relevance for the museum's collections The set of photographs donated by David Douglas Duncan is of extraordinary value for the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, one of the missions of which is to be a key reference point in the research and study of Picasso. Many were the photographers who portrayed Picasso, and they were all extremely important, yet the friendship and harmony between Duncan and the artist favoured the capturing of these special moments in the lives of Picasso and Jacqueline, and enabled the photographer to closely follow the work processes that explain the artist's oeuvre. The value of these pictures lies, above all, in the ensemble: they are portraits but they are at once features presenting a succession of scenes that tell the story of a specific period in his life scene from the point of view of a friend. And this is another of the reasons why this donation is especially welcome, for it is a personal account of the artist in the form of a photographic chronicle by David Douglas Duncan. The 161 photographs that Duncan has donated will form a part of the museum's collections, thereby furthering the knowledge of the artist and his oeuvre.

3. A BRIEF PROFILE OF DAVID DOUGLAS DUNCAN

David Douglas Duncan (Kansas City, Missouri, 23 January 1916) is a photojournalist of international renown who has published his works in a range of specialised magazines and monographic studies. He was a member of the US Marines until February 1946, the year he joined the staff of Life magazine as a reporter. In 1956 he left Life and began working for the review Collier's, although at the end of that same year the firm closed. From then on he would work as a freelance photographer, covering numerous international armed conflicts, including World War Two, the Korean and Vietnam wars. In 1991 he received the Joseph Sprague Award granted by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) in recognition of his professional career in photo-reportage. A friend of Pablo Picasso's since they first met in February 1956, his photographs of the artist constitute an exhaustive catalogue of the private sphere of the artist's studio and the home he shared

with his wife Jacqueline Roque. This photographic

oeuvre is dotted with images of family, friends and the celebrities who visited them at Cannes, La Californie, at Vauvenargues Castle in Provence and at the country house in Notre-Dame-de-Vie, in Mougins. Originally published in eight volumes, it has been translated into several languages: The Private World of Pablo Picasso (1958), Picasso's Picassos (1961), Goodbye Picasso (1974), The Silent Studio (1976), ¡Viva Picasso! (1980), Picasso and Jacqueline (1988), Picasso Paints a Portrait (1996) and Lump (2006).

David Douglas Duncan’s Books about Pablo Picasso

Duncan, David Douglas, The Private World of Pablo Picasso. New York, The Ridge Press, 1958.

Duncan, David Douglas, Picasso's Picasso. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1961.

Duncan, David Douglas, Goodbye Picasso. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1974

Duncan, David Douglas, The Silent Studio. New York, W.W. Norton., 1976

Duncan, David Douglas. ¡Viva Picasso!: a Centennial Celebration 1881-1981. New York, The Viking Press, 1980

Duncan, David Douglas, Picasso and Jacqueline. New York [etc.], W.W. Norton, 1988.

Duncan, David Douglas, Picasso Paints a Portrait. NewYork, Harry N. Abrams, 1996 [

Duncan, David Douglas; Picasso, Paloma, Photographs Picasso. New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 2000

Duncan, David Douglas, Lump. London, Thames and Hudson, 2006

David Douglas Duncan’s Photojournalism Books

Duncan, David Douglas, This is War! : A Photo-narrative in Three Parts. New York, Harper & Brothers, c. 1951

Duncan, David Douglas, Yankee Nomad: A Photographic Odyssey. New York [etc.], Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966

Duncan, David Douglas, I Protest!. New York, The New American Library, 1968

Duncan, David Douglas, Self-Portrait: U.S.A. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1969

Duncan, David Douglas, Prismatics: Exploring a New World. New York [etc.], Harper & Row, 1972

Duncan, David Douglas, The World of Allah. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1982

Duncan, David Douglas, Photo Nomad. New York [etc.], W.W. Norton, 2003

Books about David Douglas Duncan

La magia de Picasso [exhibition catalogue]. Barcelona, Fundació Caixa de Pensions / Fundación Pablo Ruiz Picasso - Museo Casa Natal (Málaga), 1989

David Douglas Duncan: One Life, A Photographic Odyssey [exhibition catalogue]. Austin, Tex., Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 1999

Ansari, Stephanie, Picasso crea a través de la cámara de David Douglas Duncan [exhibition catalogue.]. Málaga, Museo Picasso Málaga, 2011

Ansari, Stephanie, Picasso à l'oeuvre dans l'objectif de David Douglas Duncan [exhibition catalogue.]. [Paris], Gallimard, 2012

4. THE SHOW

This is the first of the two exhibitions devoted to the David Douglas Duncan donation. The 64 pictures on display now under the title The Donation of David Douglas Duncan were all taken in the same physical space, La Californie, one of the studio-cum-houses Pablo Picasso had in the south of France. The next exhibition, foreseen for the autumn of 2014, will bring together all the pictures that are directly related to art works in the museum's permanent collection, and will propose a dialogue between the actual works and the images that captured the various stages in the artist's creative process.

The Donation of David Douglas Duncan Duncan met Pablo Picasso on 8 February 1956, the same day he had stopped over at his home in the south of France on his way back from the East and before travelling to Africa. Robert Capa had promised to introduce him to the artist, but had died two years before being able to do so, in the First Indochina War. Duncan rung Picasso's home La Californie in Cannes, introducing himself as a friend of Capa's who just wanted to greet him. Jacqueline answered the phone and invited Duncan to pay them a visit. The encounter marked the beginning of a warm-hearted friendship with Picasso and Jacqueline that would last until the artist's death in 1973, seventeen years later. Their relationship was captured in Duncan's photographs, especially those produced between 1956 and 1962, which give us a glimpse of Picasso's life and artistic processes as seen through the eyes of a friend. This year, in which we commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Museu Picasso, Duncan pays tribute to his friend by donating 161 of these photographs to the museum (modern digital prints measuring 50 x 60 cm developed on Inkjet Gold Fibre Silk paper). Today we show a selection of the pictures taken in La Californie.

Room 1 « No one could have possibly imagined the world that existed behind that old wall and infrequently opened iron gate, on a quiet lane above Cannes. »

Photo 3 « This happened once. They were looking at her portrait Head […]. The only double portrait in my thousands of shots of him/them. »

Photo 4

« [...] As the telephone rang – Kanhweiler reporting that newscasters were announcing the artist’s secret marriage to Jacqueline ten days earlier. »

Photo 5

« When Claude and Paloma arrived for vacation [...], La Californie’s ironclad rules melted away. »

Photo 6

« Late one night, Picasso took a piece of charcoal and completed the skeletal figures in about half an hour. »

Photo 7

Room 2 « The sculptures were headed for their new home under the northern slopes of Mnt. Sainte-Victoire, in central Provence.»

Photo 8

« Jacqueline watching Picasso, at work, across the studio. He was her life. »

Photo 9

« Sculptures and canvases overflowed the Studio, where Picasso appears to be walking into a wall of his own work, which began to fill La Californie. »

Photo 10

Room 3 « For much of two days and nights, Pablo Picasso and I stood side-by-side, telling our own wordless stories [...]. »

Photo 12

« The view straight ahead from Pablo’s place at the dinner table, whether working, or, as sometimes happened, actually eating. »

Photo 11

« Wearing his Tyrolean hat – [...]- he

paused for a moment before turning

the lock, [...]. Then he walked out of

La Californie. »

Photo 13

EXHIBITION CREDITS Production Museu Picasso Director Bernardo Laniado-Romero Manager Palmira Balagué Curators Bernardo Laniado-Romero Sílvia Domènech Institutional relations Lluís Bagunyà Coordinator Mariona Tió Conservation Reyes Jiménez Anna Vélez Press and Communication Manel Baena Anna Bru de Sala Documentarians Margarida Cortadella Clara Fort

Digital Image Quality Control Raquel Revuelta Online content Anna Guarro Mireia Llorella Cristina Martín Installation design Museu Picasso Lighting Design La Invisible Catalogue and Communication’s campaign todojunto.net Installation Ferran Garcia Oriol Muñoz Frames Accentart

5. LIST OF RECENT DONATIONS TO THE MUSEU

David Douglas Duncan Donation / 23 September 2013

161 b/w photographs, modern digital prints on Inkjet Gold Fibre Silk paper, 50 x 60 cm, taken between the years 1956 and 1962.

Anonymous donation / 16 March 2013

Picasso, Pablo Ruiz Couple Mougins, 26-29/03/1968 Etching on copper plate, printed on Auvergne Richard de Bas vellum paper 22.1 x 32.1 cm (plate) 36.7 x 47.5 cm (print) MPB 113.341

Anna Gaspar Donation / 8 April 2013

Catalogues and iconographic documents produced by Sala Gaspar between 1957 and 1989 on occasion of the Picasso exhibitions organised by the Barcelona art gallery.

Peter Mussfeldt Donation / 27 July 2012

Photographs of the performance of Picasso's play Le désir attrapé par la queue directed by Heinz Balthes, staged in Düsseldorf in 1961.

Arturo Taracena Donation / 9 July 2012

A print that reproduces a portrait of Jaume Sabartés painted in the seventies by the artist Max Saravia, Sabartés's nephew, from the original plate by Rafael Rodríguez Padilla.

Alejandro Nadal Donation / 8 October 2010

Photographs of Pablo Picasso at his home in Vallauris, taken by the donator's father, the painter Carlos Nadal.

Catherine Hutin Donation / 20 May 2009

Sketch for Las Meninas Cannes, 16 August 1957 (dated on the upper right-hand side) Coloured pencil on paper 24 x 30.5 cm. MPB 113.292

Rosa Maria Selva Donation / 1 April 2009

Collection of documents of Mr Josep Selva, director of the Museu d’Art Modern de Barcelona, during the development of the project for the Museu Picasso in Barcelona.

Rosa Queralt Donation / 1 April 2009

Sound documents that compile interviews with scholars and people close to Picasso broadcast by Radio Juventud in October 1982 on occasion of the centenary of Pablo Picasso's birth.

Fundació Noguera Donation / 19 December 2000

Facsimile from Le Carnet des Carnets, 1965 (with autograph dedication by Pablo Picasso).

PHOTO CREDITS OF THE IMAGES THAT APPEAR IN THIS RELEASE

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Gjon Mili David Douglas Duncan and Pablo Picasso at La Californie 1960 Modern digital print on Inkjet Gold Fibre Silk 50 x 60 cm Museu Picasso, Barcelona Gift of David Douglas Duncan, 2013 © All rights reserved © Succession Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid 2013. Photos from 2 to 13

David Douglas Duncan Photographs taken between 1956 and 1962 at La Californie Modern digital prints on Inkjet Gold Fibre Silk 50 x 60 cm Museu Picasso, Barcelona Gift of David Douglas Duncan, 2013 © David Douglas Duncan 2013 © Succession Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid 2013.