Casagemas

Up until now his own contribution has been largely ignored, something that this new exhibition hopes to rectify.

History rarely remembers the losers. Which is a shame, as it’s often those on the outskirts of a scene that inspire the most. Think Neil Cassidy and Jack Kerouac. Or Richard Hell and the Sex Pistols. For art lovers, Carles Casagemas is best known as the subject of Picasso’s blue period painting, ‘Casagemas in his coffin’, which showed the 20 year old, painter, libertine and poet after his death by suicide. Up until now his own contribution has been largely ignored, something that this new exhibition hopes to rectify. Collecting most of his attributed work, The Artist Behind the Myth provides an insight into the libertine underworld that would later spawn some of the greatest artists of the 20th century.