In 1906, Picasso returned to Catalonia, first to Barcelona and later to Gósol. In Barcelona, he and his companion Fernande Olivier, met up again with old friends like Ramon and Cinto Reventós, Ricard Canals, Enric Casanovas, Pablo Gargallo and Joan Vidal i Ventosa who, together with Quim Borralleres, had founded the El Guayaba circle, where Picasso joined and most probably took part in the fever of excitement over Noucentisme that had captured all of Catalonia and which to a certain extent, would leave its mark on some of his work from Gósol. The references to Ingres’s classicism –Picasso had undoubtedly seen his retrospective exhibition at the Salon d’Automne in Paris that year– and the archaism that developed during his stay at Gósol, the direct consequence of his visit to the exhibition of Iberian sculptures from Osuna and the Cerro de los Santos which he had seen in Paris, mark a decisive turning point as Picasso started out along the road of the avant-garde.
The seminar hopes that the following well-known experts on Picasso’s work done at Gósol will take part: Eugenio Carmona, Elizabeth Cowling, Francesc Fontbona, Hélène Klein, Brigitte Léal, Robert S. Lubar, Robert Rosenblum and Natasha Staller.

Organization: Museu Picasso de Barcelona

Closing ceremony festival for the seminar and also to celebrate the centenary of Picasso’s stay at Gósol.

Organization: Ajuntament de Gósol – Museu Picasso de Barcelona