Image: Pablo Picasso, La Lecture (Woman Reading), 1953. Oil on wood. Courtesy Museum Berggruen, Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. © 2026 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Jens Ziehe
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will present "Picasso–Klee–Matisse: Masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen" from 29 October 2026 to 28 February 2027. The exhibition brings about 100 works from the collection assembled by Heinz Berggruen (1914–2007), now held by Berlin's Museum Berggruen, part of the Neue Nationalgalerie.
Berggruen spent more than four decades building one of the most significant private collections of twentieth-century European modern art. He ran a gallery in Paris and was known for his close friendship with Pablo Picasso, and the collection he formed is today a public institution in Berlin. According to PAMM, the selection is meant to show how personal relationships with artists and a lasting commitment to modernism shaped what he acquired.
The show follows early modernism through its experiments with colour, abstraction and the figure, and through the arrival of Cubism. It gives particular weight to the long careers of Picasso and Paul Klee, includes Henri Matisse's cut-outs and Alberto Giacometti's attenuated sculptures, and adds paintings and drawings by Paul Cézanne and Georges Braque, among others. Works are grouped by subject – still lifes, interiors, portraits and landscapes – across painting, watercolour, drawing and sculpture. Examples illustrated by the museum include Picasso's La Lecture (Woman Reading) of 1953, Cézanne's Portrait of Madame Cézanne and a watercolour study of an apple, both from around 1885, and Klee's Landscape in Blue (1917).
PAMM describes the exhibition as the largest presentation of the Berggruen collection on the East Coast. The works have previously been shown in Japan, China, France, Italy and Spain.
The Miami presentation also draws on PAMM's own holdings of Latin American modern art, including works by Diego Rivera, Joaquín Torres-García and Wifredo Lam, to place the European pieces in a wider international context. The museum also uses the occasion to reflect on Berggruen's place in the art worlds of postwar Paris and Berlin.
The exhibition is organised jointly by the Museum Berggruen, Neue Nationalgalerie, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, and PAMM, and is co-curated by Natalie Zimmer of the Museum Berggruen and Maritza M. Lacayo, associate curator at PAMM.
