Exposition Picasso a la Tate Gallery, Londres, 1960

Vintage Silver Gelatin Print, 1960, with Press stamps verso, and press text which reads : “ 5.7.60 : Picasso Exhibition at Millbank: Cleaners preparing the Tate Gallery this morning for the exhibition of 270 of 79 year old Pablo Picasso of paintings which opens for the public tomorrow. Behind the cleaners is the largest mural in the exhibition. The exhibition will be open until 18 September.”
Note: This interesting photograph shows a scenary panel which was made by Picasso for the Ballet “Parade” in 1917. This was with music by Erik Satie and a one act scenario by Jean Cocteau The ballet was premierd in Paris on May 18th 1917 at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris and danced by the troup of Sergei Diaghelev - the Ballet Russes. Picasso was commisioned to design the costumes and scenary for this famous work and, in many ways, it could be said, he beacme very famous for it. The relationship between Picasso, Cocteau and the Ballet Russe was pivotal in the Spanish artists career and this major show in London, some 50 years later, is a fitting memorial to it.