In Cortona, the exhibition Pablo Picasso. The Engraved Desire

Until January 11, 2026, at the Spazio d’Arte Palazzo Ferretti

Until January 11, 2026, the historic rooms of Palazzo Ferretti in Cortona will host Pablo Picasso. The Engraved Desire, a unique exhibition that reveals the most intimate and visionary soul of the great Spanish master through 100 engravings from the famous Vollard Suite.

Created between 1930 and 1937 on commission from gallery owner Ambroise Vollard, the plates represent one of the most intense and complex graphic cycles in Picasso's oeuvre. Classical mythology, eroticism, metamorphosis, and studio life intertwine in a powerful visual narrative, in which desires, fears, and obsessions take shape in vibrant black and white.

Pablo Picasso. The Engraved Desire

The exhibition, designed by Lart Universe, reinterprets the Suite as a long strip of drawings, an artist's graphic novel where each engraving is a cartoon, each scene a page of Picasso's creative torment. The exhibition invites visitors to immerse themselves in a silent dialogue with the works, reading the images as fragments of a universal story: that of a man struggling with his passions, between ecstasy and anguish, sensuality and reflection.

With this new exhibition, following the successes dedicated to Guernica, the Neorealists, and Alice in Wonderland, Lart Universe confirms its commitment to promoting 20th-century graphic art and cultural promotion in the region. A curatorial project that, through names such as Dalí, Picasso, and Chagall, transforms Cortona into a point of reference for art lovers internationally.

The exhibition is open every day from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.