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Pablo Picasso, La Lecture (Woman Reading), 1953. Courtesy Museum Berggruen, Neue Nationalgalerie, Stiftung Preu\u00dfischer Kulturbesitz. \u00a9 2026 Estate of Pablo Picasso\/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Jens Ziehe.<\/p>\n Pablo Picasso, La Lecture (Woman Reading), 1953. Courtesy Museum Berggruen, Neue Nationalgalerie, Stiftung Preu\u00dfischer Kulturbesitz. \u00a9 2026 Estate of Pablo Picasso\/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Jens Ziehe.<\/p>\n
P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will present \u201cPicasso\u2013Klee\u2013Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen,\u201d opening Oct. 29.<\/p>\n
The landmark exhibition brings together nearly 100 works from the Museum Berggruen and the Berggruen family collection, alongside select works from PAMM\u2019s permanent collection, to present one of the most important European collections of 20th-century Modern art ever assembled.<\/p>\n
It is among the first museum exhibitions in Miami centered on canonical European Modernism at this scale, and PAMM\u2019s first exhibition devoted exclusively to Modern masterpieces.<\/p>\n
The collection owes its name to the passionate art dealer, collector, and \u00e9migr\u00e9 Heinz Berggruen (1914-2007), who spent over four decades assembling masterworks by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, Alberto Giacometti, Georges Braque, and Paul C\u00e9zanne, among others.<\/p>\n
Born into a Jewish family in Berlin, Berggruen fled Nazi Germany to the United States in 1936 before eventually returning to Europe, where he developed enduring friendships with many of the 20th Century\u2019s most influential artists. His collection reflects not only exceptional connoisseurship, but also a deeply personal vision shaped by exile, migration, and cultural exchange that defined the postwar period. Seen together, the works illuminate the artistic innovations of the 1900s while offering a powerful lens through which to understand the moments that shaped them.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresenting this exhibition at PAMM is both an institutional milestone and an opportunity to broaden access to some of the defining works of 20th Century art,\u201d said PAMM associate curator Maritza M. Lacayo. \u201cBy bringing the Museum Berggruen collection into conversation with works from PAMM\u2019s permanent collection, we\u2019ve created a presentation that reflects Miami\u2019s unique cultural position while inviting audiences to experience these familiar masterpieces through new historical and geographic perspectives.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is the first time that PAMM has dedicated its largest galleries entirely to Modern art. Organized thematically around still life, portraiture, interiors, landscape, and the emergence of Cubism, the exhibition brings together painting, sculpture, drawing, watercolor, collage, and prints to reveal unexpected conversations across artists and movements. Rather than separating works by artist or chronology, the installation highlights shared artistic questions and formal innovations, encouraging visitors to encounter familiar masterpieces in new ways.<\/p>\n
Alongside defining works of European Modernism are works from PAMM\u2019s permanent collection of Latin American Modern masters \u2014 including Diego Rivera, Joaqu\u00edn Torres-Garc\u00eda, and Wifredo Lam. The presentation draws connections across Europe and the Americas, opening new dialogues around topics like exile and migration, themes that hold particular resonance in Miami and reinforce PAMM\u2019s role as a place where global art histories can be experienced through contemporary perspectives.<\/p>\n
Among the exhibition\u2019s highlights are Pablo Picasso\u2019s La Lecture (Woman Reading) (1953), which reflects the artist\u2019s lifelong engagement with portraiture and the expressive possibilities of color and form; Portrait de Jaume Sabart\u00e9s (Portrait of Jaume Sabart\u00e9s) (1904), a celebrated example from Picasso\u2019s Blue Period; Paul Klee\u2019s luminous Landschaft in Blau (Landscape in Blue) (1917); Henri Matisse\u2019s iconic cut-out \u00c9l\u00e9ments v\u00e9g\u00e9taux (Vegetal Elements) (1947); Int\u00e9rieur d\u2019Atelier \u00e0 Nice (In the Studio in Nice) (1929), one of Matisse\u2019s celebrated studio interiors; Paul C\u00e9zanne\u2019s Portrait de Madame C\u00e9zanne (Portrait of Madame C\u00e9zanne) (c. 1885), and Alberto Giacometti\u2019s signature elongated sculptures, among many other masterworks spanning nearly a century of artistic innovation.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the great strengths of this international tour is that each presentation is shaped by the context of its host institution. As the works travel in changing constellations and enter into new dialogues, they reveal connections across cultures, institutions, and histories,\u201d said Museum Berggruen curator Natalie Zimmer. \u201cIn this sense, the tour has become a kind of laboratory for seeing modern art differently \u2014 challenging established interpretations and opening the collection to new audiences and communities around the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe interpretation at PAMM expands the conversation beyond European Modernism to broader histories of artistic exchange across the Americas,\u201d Zimmer continued. \u201cWe are delighted to see Heinz Berggruen\u2019s collection continue to resonate in new ways and to reach audiences in a city whose international character makes it an especially meaningful place for these stories to be told.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPicasso\u2013Klee\u2013Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen\u201d is organized by the Museum Berggruen, Neue Nationalgalerie, Stiftung Preu\u00dfischer Kulturbesitz, and P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami. The exhibition is co-curated by Museum Berggruen curator Natalie Zimmer and PAMM associate curator Maritza M. Lacayo, with the support of curatorial administrative assistant Naomi Bitton.<\/p>\n
The exhibition is presented with lead support from Kenneth C. Griffin and Griffin Catalyst, Patricia and William Kleh, Aaron and Dorothy Podhurst, and an anonymous donor. Additional support from Danielle Lambert, the Ashken Family Foundation, Karen H. Bechtel and William M. Osborne, Carol Crapple, Diane and Werner Grob, Nedra and Dr. Mark* Oren, Elissa Kramer, Greg and Leslie Ferrero, Patricia M. Papper, Esta Stecher, Mary Wolfson and Robert Rosenberg, Tina Raja, Chris and Suzanne Armstrong, and Rafael and Marijean Miyar is gratefully acknowledged.<\/p>\n
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