Uncrating Picasso at the High

A modern masterpiece was unveiled at the on Wednesday.

Curators with the Atlanta museum and The Museum of Modern Art in New York City uncrated Picasso's "Girl Before a Mirror" for the upcoming Picasso to Warhol exhibition. The display that opens Oct. 15 will feature more than 100 works from 14 modern artists. 

"It gives us a chance to tell the story of modernism," said Michael Rooks, the High's curator of modern and contemporary art. "I'm really excited."

Picasso's "Girl Before a Mirror" will be the first masterpiece visitors see when they enter the gallery at the museum for the new show that runs through April 29, 2012. 

Here is more about the painting from the High:

Few paintings in Picasso’s oeuvre have attracted such intense interpretive scrutiny as Girl before a Mirror, painted at the artist’s château in Boisgeloup, outside Paris, in 1932. The subject is his young lover Marie-Thérèse Walter, whom Picasso, a married man nearly thirty years her senior, had met in 1927.  The double image of Walter, which seems to coalesce into a constellation of symbolic shapes, has inspired a wealth of metaphorical and biographical readings, but it has been most often interpreted either as a traditional vanitas image representing life’s transience or one that reveals the “submerged world of the subconscious.”