Pablo Picasso
Moulin de la Galette. 1900
From the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Moulin de la Galette was Picasso’s first Parisian picture and one that shaped for several years to come the creative direction taken by the young artist. Picasso who had arrived to conquer Paris was barely nineteen when he painted this, his earliest masterpiece. The title is the name of an old windmill on Montmartre that was later converted into a place of entertainment and became firmly imprinted in the history of French culture. It was recorded in the works of many famous artists, such as Corot and Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh, Van Dongen and Utrillo.

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The first visitor to the exhibition