New Picasso painting arrived at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest!

Visitors can see a new Picasso painting from September 14 at the Ludwig Museum’s exhibition titled Time Machine. The Bust of the man in the hat (Buste d’Homme au Chapeau, 1970) arrived in Budapest to temporarily replace another Picasso painting, Musketeers (1967), originally seen in the exhibition.

Author: Éva Kolba

On the information board next to the painting, we can read that the museum’s German sister institution, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, has borrowed the Musketeers (and a ceramic bowl depicting a bullfight) for an exhibition on Picasso until January 30, 2022 – Szeretlekmagyarorszag reported.

The Ludwig couple donated the Bust of the man in hat to the museum in Cologne and the three Picasso paintings and the series of ceramic bowls found in Budapest. Thanks to the collectors, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne has the third most extensive Picasso collection, so they easily chose a piece from the rich collection that can temporarily replace the borrowed Musketeers.

The Budapest Ludwig Museum’s Time Machine exhibition was created during a short break during

the pandemic under extraordinary circumstances. Each of the objects on display represents time, the passing of time. According to the concept, the artworks are time machines, allowing us an imaginary journey in time. The Picasso paintings on display in the exhibition illustrate how the great innovators of the twentieth century reflect on their great ancestors. And also how artists like Picasso relate to the work of their followers and critics. The portrait of a man in the hat, painted with light brush strokes and bright colours, is also considered a symbolic self-portrait of Picasso in literature.