The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Picasso for Asia—A Conversation

  1. Introduction of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Picasso for Asia—A Conversation
  2. Oil painting on canvas depicting a profile portrait of a man looking solemnly to our right against a grey background. The man is rendered in delicate brushwork and wears a grey jacket over a white-collared shirt. He has short blondish-brown hair, a moustache, and a beard.
    West Gallery Pablo Picasso José Ruiz Blasco, Father of the Artist
  3. Photograph of two right hands, one on top of the other, emerging from our right against a black background. The hands lie on a golden computer mouse, which rests on a black surface. The red-painted fingernails of the upper hand contrast with the bare fingernails of the lower hand.
    West Gallery Pixy Liao Pixy Liao and her muse
  4. Oil painting on canvas depicting a woman with a horse-like head featuring pale yellow knife-like shapes. The woman is rendered primarily in light grey tones against a darker grey background and sits on a chair. She faces our left, appearing to gaze at a cream-coloured horned bird perched on her hand.
    West Gallery Wifredo Lam Woman with a Bird
  5. Oil painting on canvas depicting a horse head emerging from our bottom left area against a black background. Rendered in grey tones, the horse appears to be screaming with its flared nostrils reaching the top and its opened mouth revealing a dagger-like tongue.
    West Gallery Pablo Picasso Horse Head. Sketch for Guernica
  6. Acrylic painting on canvas depicting a figure with a doleful expression and a green and pink garment. The figure almost fills the black background and holds the hands of a child standing in front. The child wears a red and blue outfit and has hair resembling Mickey Mouse ears.
    West Gallery Tanaami Keiichi Pleasure of Picasso—Mother and Child
  7. Oil painting on canvas depicting a bearded man with short dark hair sitting in a greyish-blue interior. He wears a blazer over a white shirt and stares vacantly at a point behind us. At the bottom, an almost horizontal streak of unevenly applied brown paint lies below his crossed arms.
    West Gallery Pablo Picasso Portrait of a Man
  8. Oil painting on canvas of the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur in the upper half, rising above a cluster of buildings depicted as geometric fragments. Rendered in brief grey lines against a light tan background, the Basilica and architectural structures in the centre feature greater detail and white highlights.
    West Gallery Pablo Picasso Sacré-Coeur
  9. Oil painting on board of a still life. Three clusters of geometric forms, largely in yellow, purple, and grey tones, rest on an orange and brown tabletop against a grey and dark green background. The geometric forms in the upper centre area feature a fish and wavy lines resembling water.
    West Gallery Luis Chan Cubist Sea Shore
  10. Oil painting on canvas depicting two entangled nude figures on a sandy beach. Their curved limbs, breasts, interlocked mouths, sharp tongues, and other body parts appear as a jumble of tan sculptural rocks. Blue strips of the sea and sky stretch across the upper half in the background.
    West Gallery Pablo Picasso Figures by the Sea
  11. Ink and watercolour painting on paper depicting a landscape of organic shapes rendered primarily in grey tones. Overlapping washes of waves rise on our left and subside on our right below delicate netting and intricately layered knolls. Undulating forms suggestive of rocks or clouds hover in the upper half.
    West Gallery Irene Chou No title
  12. Oil and gouache painting on canvas of a woman depicted in geometric shapes sitting in an armchair with a yellow-green frame. She has curly reddish-orange hair, a pointed chin that reaches her round breasts, and purple hands that flank her triangular blue skirt. Yellow wall on the right enlivens the dark grey interior.
    West Gallery Pablo Picasso Woman in an Armchair
  13. Oil painting on canvas of a still life rendered in vibrant colours. The objects, including those resembling a pitcher, fruit, and flowers, are portrayed with geometric shapes. The table’s three curved legs in the lower half and the eye-like appearance of the green fruit off-centre appear like a human figure.
    West Gallery Pablo Picasso Large Still Life with Pedestal Table
  14. Painted bronze sculpture in dark grey tones with a flat rectangular base. A goat skull with a corrugated surface and horns resembling bicycle handlebars lies on our right. A bottle standing on our left holds a candle at its top, consisting of a circular protrusion and radiating spikes.
    West Gallery Pablo Picasso Goat Skull, Bottle, and Candle
  15. Oil painting on canvas depicting an interior with a nondescript figure standing beside a chair on our left. A bust rests on a plinth on our right. In the middle section, a mottled creature with a tail stands in front of a dresser featuring dark green, purple, and grey tones.
    West Gallery Pablo Picasso, Kuramata Shiro Picasso and Kuramata's magic
  16. Bronze sculpture of a man consisting of geometric shapes that form a vertically elongated silhouette on a flat triangular base. His small rectangular head tops a triangular neck. With hands clasped over his abdomen, his narrow arms reach down from broad shoulders to form a rectangular frame in the centre.
    West Gallery Pablo Picasso The Bathers
  17. Collage of a variety of photos of hammers taken from hardware store catalogues placed in a spherical pattern emanating from a single centre point. The sphere of hammers is placed slightly off centre and closer to the bottom of the paper.
    West Gallery Haegue Yang Hardware Store Collages
  18. Oil and enamel painting on canvas depicting a man in tattered clothes and a large black hat sitting barefoot with legs spread apart. He grins at the viewer with a bottle in his right hand. The frying pan of eggs in his left hand partially covers his exposed crotch.
    West Gallery Pablo Picasso El Bobo
  19. Oil painting on plywood depicting two groups of nude figures rendered in grey tones against a barren and hilly landscape of green and brown. On our right, six helmeted soldiers point rifles and swords at a group comprising four distressed women and four children on our left.
    West Gallery Pablo Picasso Massacre in Korea
  20. Acrylic, charcoal, and pastel painting on canvas depicting a standoff between two groups of figures with faces that feature snouts and long tongues. The grotesque figures on our right point swords at the group of mostly nude and distressed women and children backed by green hills on our left.
    West Gallery Simon Fujiwara Who vs Who vs Who? (A Picture of a Massacre)