Sunday, May 18, 10:15 – 11am
Pablo Picasso. Young Woman Holding a Cigarette (detail), 1901. The Barnes Foundation, BF318. © 2025 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Free; registration required.
About the Talk
Each month, members of our education, research, and curatorial teams present their ongoing research on the collection to members. These talks are a great way to learn more about your favorite artists and works.
Join us in Room 10, which Dr. Barnes called “the Picasso room,” for a deep dive into the artist's playful and philosophical strategies of representation. We’ll look at a range of works from two decades of Picasso's career to consider how his paintings functioned at a meta-pictorial level to challenge, interrogate, and lay bare the basic building blocks of meaning-making. Importantly, we’ll trace the artist’s early interest in the malleability of forms before he began his experiments with cubism. This discussion will be led by Naina Saligram, a research fellow at the Barnes who is studying the 46 works by Picasso in the collection.
This talk will take place in Room 10 of the collection galleries.
Pablo Picasso. Young Woman Holding a Cigarette, 1901. The Barnes Foundation, BF318. © 2025 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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