Picasso the printmaker takes centre stage at British Museum

Picasso’s Still Life with Glass Under the Lamp (1962). The British Museum says the prints reveal the artist’s ‘relentless creativity and curiosity and eagerness to find new ways of making images’. Photograph: @Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2024

The British Museum is putting on a big exhibition of the print works of Pablo Picasso, one of the finest graphic artists of the 20th century, it will announce on Monday.

About 100 prints will reflect the life and loves of the artist with an extraordinary vision, best known for masterpieces include Guernica, one of the most powerful anti-war paintings.