Picasso–Klee–Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen

Pérez Art Museum Miami Miami · Downtown Miami / Edgewater

Exhibition on view: Oct 29, 2026 - Feb 28, 2027

*Picasso–Klee–Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen* brings about 100 works from collector Heinz Berggruen’s holdings in Berlin. Paintings, drawings and sculpture by Picasso, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse and Alberto Giacometti, with Cézanne and Braque, are grouped around still lifes, interiors, portraits and landscapes. The show traces early modernism through color, abstraction, figuration and Cubism.

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), born in Málaga, Spain, was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Based largely in France, he co-founded Cubism with Georges Braque and worked across painting, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics and collage through many shifting styles, from the Blue and Rose periods to Neoclassicism and Surrealism-inflected work.

Paul Klee

Paul Klee (1879–1940), born near Bern, Switzerland, was a painter, draftsman and teacher whose inventive, often small-scale works blend abstraction, color theory, line and poetic fantasy. Associated with the Blue Rider circle, he taught at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1931 and left thousands of paintings, watercolors and drawings.

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse (1869–1954), born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France, was a leading figure of modern art. He led the Fauves with expressive, non-naturalistic color, and across painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking pursued color and line as sources of order and joy. In his final years he developed his celebrated paper cut-outs, made from gouache-painted paper.

Alberto Giacometti

Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966), born in Borgonovo, Switzerland, was a sculptor, painter and draftsman who worked mainly in Paris. After an early Surrealist phase, he became known for gaunt, elongated standing and walking figures in bronze, and for intense portraits, works that probe perception, distance and the fragility of the human presence.

Artworks in this exhibition

Pablo Picasso, La Lecture (Woman Reading), 1953, oil on wood. Museum Berggruen, Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Photo: Jens Ziehe

Paul Cézanne, Portrait de Madame Cézanne (Portrait of Madame Cézanne), c. 1885, oil on canvas. On long-term loan from the Berggruen family, Museum Berggruen. Photo: Dietmar Katz

Paul Klee, Landschaft in Blau (Landscape in Blue), 1917, watercolor, pencil, pen, and ink on primed paper on cardboard. On long-term loan from the Berggruen family, Museum Berggruen. Photo: Dietmar Katz