Guided visit
Picasso’s Barcelona
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In our guided tour of Picasso’s Barcelona, we’ll take your students on a journey through Picasso’s history and the influence he had in Barcelona and how this affected his artistic career.
Our guide will take you back to 1895, when Malaga-born Picasso’s relationship with Barcelona began. In September 1895, at the age of 14, the young painter entered the Barcelona art school ‘Escola de La Llotja’, where his father worked as a painting teacher and where Picasso studied for 2 years. Your students will discover the importance of the city in the life of the painter who himself said ‘Barcelona, the city where it all began…’.
Our guide’s great flexibility will enable your students to make the most of this educational tour, organised according to their level.
From Barcelona to Paris, explore the youth of this exceptional painter
Our guided tour of Picasso’s Barcelona will take you into the city’s artistic circles, where the great artists and intellectuals of the time met and where the painter loved to go.
Our guide will take you to one of these places: Els Quatre Gats tavern (Calle Montsió no. 3), a haven of inspiration where Picasso and his friends discussed life and art. In this emblematic venue, he organised his first exhibition of paintings and even designed the cover of the house menu.
Follow in Picasso’s footsteps in Barcelona, where he learned to love painting…
In this itinerary, we will visit the different homes where the painter stayed during his time in Barcelona and his various studios.
Discover the ways in which Picasso always maintained a relationship with Barcelona, even after his exile in 1939 due to the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco.
The ultimate expression of this bond was his desire to have a museum dedicated to his work in the city, the “Museu Picasso”, which opened in 1963. The museum was designed by Jaume Sabartés, a childhood friend of the painter.
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