CLEVELAND — The Pablo Picasso at the Cleveland Art Museum is now open after it took nearly a decade to create.

What You Need To Know

  • The Picasso exhibit opened in December and runs through March

  • It displays nearly 300 pieces of Picasso's work from across the world

  • This exhibit took about 10 years to come to life

Hanna Rutz, a visitor of the new exhibit, said Cleveland has such a great art scene and was excited to see the Picasso exhibit come to Cleveland.

“It’s definitely worth it to see how the vision has been transformed from on paper to canvas and to see how its evolved,” Rutz said.

Most of the works in the exhibition are on loan from museums across the world. Britany Salsbury, the curator of prints and drawings for the Cleveland Museum of Art, said that many of the pieces came from the Picasso museum in Paris. She called the pieces of work “playful.”

“Looks at Picasso’s use of paper as a center for the center of his creative practice throughout his entire long career,” Salsbury said.

Although curating this exhibit took approximately 10 years, Salsbury expressed it was worth the wait.

“The show was supposed to open here at the CMA in Sept. 2020. It was organized in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts in London. It was only viewed there for just a few weeks before the pandemic forced the museum to close early and the exhibition never ended up reopening there,” Salsbury said.

The exhibit is open through March, and Salsbury called it a once in a lifetime experience.

“Cleveland ended up being the one place you can really see the exhibition in the world,” Salsbury said.

Rutz called the exhibit a special opportunity.

“I wanted to really see this collection from all over the world in one space,” Rutz said.