The public will finally get a look at a long-hidden Picasso artwork at the Evansville Museum this month. WNIN’s John Gibson has the update:
The Museum of Arts, History and Science says the first look at the “glass” version Pablo Picasso’s Seated Woman in Red Hat will be for museum members June 23rd through the 25th.
The new Picasso exhibit will open to the general public with a ribbon cutting by Mayor Stephanie Terry on Wednesday, June 26th.
The Museum says renovations continue for the exhibition space that will include several Picasso prints and one ceramic work by the artist in the Museum’s permanent collection.
Seated Woman in Red Hat was created in the mid-1950s at a studio in France, where Picasso worked with glass artisans to reinterpret some of his most famous paintings.
Industrial designer Raymond Loewy bought Seated Woman in Red Hat and donated it to the Evansville Museum in 1963.
The piece was mislabeled and it remained in storage for decades.