Picasso Exhibition in Palm Desert

“It’s not every day that a painting by Picasso worth tens of millions of dollars comes on the market,” says Jim Carona, co-owner of the elegant, museum-like Heather James Fine Art in Palm Desert, California. He is referring to a never-before-seen-in-public portrait of the artist’s daughter, Paloma, one of many featured pieces at an unprecedented exhibition of Picasso’s works in Southern California which opened at Heather James Fine Art on November 28, 2009, and runs through March 14, 2010. The show, which was put together by Carona and the gallery's art curator Chip Tom, is a world-class survey of Picasso’s paintings, drawings and sculptures from several of his major periods, including Cubism, and includes a rarely seen private collection of 80 ceramics.
“Picasso was an artist that influenced multiple generations,” says Tom, who has helped establish Heather James Fine Art among U.S. and international art collectors as one of the nation’s premier galleries with shows by Monet, Rauschenberg and diverse, up-and-coming young artists. “That’s due not only to his brilliance, but also to how long he lived and worked. He was an artist who was personally pushing his own art to new levels every day, experimenting with diverse genres and cultural influences, challenging himself to create in many different mediums.”