Les Yeux du Monde proudly presents the fifth installment of an exhibition series orchestrated to honor the memory and scholarship of acclaimed Picasso scholar, beloved former professor of Modern Art at the University of Virginia, and sublime painter, Lydia Csato Gasman.

The exhibition features work by both Lydia Gasman and Pablo Picasso, the artist at the center of her scholarship, along with eight other contemporary artists whose work or thinking they inspired: William Bennett, Anne Chesnut, Dean Dass, Rosemarie Fiore, Sanda Iliescu, Megan Marlatt, David Summers, and Russ Warren. A portion of the proceeds from this show will benefit the Lydia Csato Gasman Archives for Picasso and Modernist Studies, the non-profit organization that LYDM Founder Lyn Bolen Warren and Art Historian Victoria Beck Newman co-founded to preserve and disseminate Gasman’s scholarship.

Lydia Gasman’s groundbreaking Ph.D. dissertation, Mystery, Magic, and Love in Picasso: Picasso and the Surrealist Poets, 1925-1938 revolutionized the thinking around Picasso’s art. It was reverentially reviewed in The New York Review of Books by Picasso biographer, John Richardson, who noted, “Dr. Gasman did more to unlock the secrets of the artist’s imagination than anyone else.”

Please join LYDM in celebrating the remarkable accomplishments of Lydia Csato Gasman, and the extraordinary art of Pablo Picasso, William Bennett, Anne Chesnut, Dean Dass, Rosemarie Fiore, Sanda Iliescu, Megan Marlatt, David Summers, and Russ Warren during an opening reception on Friday, September 13th from 5-7pm. The gallery is located at 841 Wolf Trap Road, Charlottesville VA 22911 and is open Thursday through Sunday 1-5pm or by appointment outside these hours.  The exhibit will run from September 13 through October 27.

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