The Birth and Re-Staging of the Original Modern Art Museum Blockbuster
The world reeled from collective economic crisis. The political climate was tempestuous, mercurial, fraught. Culturally, after a fecund period of growth, innovation and experimentation, the climate was turning more conservative, and the contemporary art market, formerly running full throttle, was depressed and disoriented. While any of these descriptions might serve as synopsis for the past two years, each was exponentially more pronounced in 1932—the year the Kunsthaus Zürich staged a revolution in the art world by staging the first-ever museum retrospective of a living artist. The subject? Pablo Picasso, then age 50 and easily the highest-priced artist of the day. (Photo below: Olga, Paulo, Picasso and Gotthard Schuh in front of the Baur au Lac hotel in Zürich, 1932, Photo: Hans Robert Welti,
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