Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), The Soler family (Le déjeuner sur l’herbe), 1903, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain de la Ville de Liège, Luik. © c/o Beeldrecht Amsterdam 2007.

AMSTERDAM.- Barcelona 1900. The creation of a modern city on show at the Van Gogh Museum. This autumn the Van Gogh Museum presents a landmark exhibition Barcelona 1900 which will celebrate the astonishing transformation of this vibrant city between 1880 and 1909. In this period Barcelona underwent an impressive architectural development and flourished socially and artistically. The exhibition, on view from 21 September 2007 to 20 January 2008, will provide an insight into a city which continues to intrigue visitors and inspire artists and architects to this day. Barcelona 1900 takes the visitor on a tour of the significant places in the city from the Ramblas via the Palau de la Música Catalana and the Hospital de Sant Pau on to Gaudí’s Park Güell and the church of the Sagrada Familia. Some 200 works of art including paintings, drawings and sculpture and also furniture, jewellery, scale models, films, stage scenery and tile panels reveal the remarkable breadth of artistic creation. All the leading artists of that period - Pablo Picasso, Isidre Nonell, Santiago Rusiñol, Alexandre de Riquer and Ramon Casas - as well as the architects - Antoni Gaudí, Lluís Domènech i Montaner and Josep Puig i Cadafalch - whose legacy is still so powerful, are represented often by works that are rarely on view to the public. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20787

Santiago Rusiñol (1861-1931), Morphine, 1894, Museu Cau Ferrat (Consorcio del Patrimonio de Sitges).