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In pictures: Picasso - Peace and Freedom

Still Life with Candlestick (Nature morte au bougeoir). © Collection Centre Pompidou, Dist. RMN/Jacqueline Hyde

A major exhibition exploring the post-War life and career of artist Pablo Picasso will open at Tate Liverpool next year, it has been announced.

Black Jug and Skull (Le pichet noir et la têde mort), 1946. Tate. © Succession Picasso/DACS 2009

Picasso: Peace and Freedom will bring together 150 works by Picasso from all over the world, including his 1946 piece Black Jug and Skull (Le pichet noir et la tede mort).

The Rape of the Sabine Women (after David), Mougins, 2-4 November 1962. Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel

The exhibition will follow the chronology of Picasso's paintings from 1944 until his death in 1973. Each of these works is dated and connected to events that were unfolding in the world at the time, from the Cuban Missile Crisis to Franco's Spain.

Goat's Skull, Bottle and Candle (Crane de chevre, bouteille et bougie), 1952. Tate. © Succession Picasso/DACS 2009

Picasso painted an number of still lifes from the early 1940s that captured the feeling of oppression during the occupation and austerity of the war period. They frequently featured skulls as well other symbols of death and transience, such as candles.

The Rape of the Sabine Women (after David). Mougins, 4-5 and 8 November 1962. © Collection Centre Pompidou, Dist. RMN / Christian Bahier / Philippe Migeat. © Succession Picasso/DACS 2009

The Rape of the Sabine Women 1962, painted at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, will also feature in the exhibition.

Dove (La Colombe), 1949. Tate. © Succession Picasso/DACS 2009

Picasso's Dove of Peace became the emblem for the Peace Movement and universal symbol of hope during the Cold War.

Composition, 1948.Tate. © Succession Picasso/DACS 2009

The exhibition is organised by Tate Liverpool in collaboration with the Albertina, Vienna where it will be shown following its presentation in Liverpool.

Still Life with Skull, Leeks and Pitcher, 14 March 1945. © Succession Picasso/DACS 2009

Picasso: Peace and Freedom will be open at Tate Liverpool from 21 May until 30 August 2010.

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