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The Musee Picasso
or Picasso Museum is located in the Hotel Sale, an elegant
building that was originally constructed between 1656 and 1659 for Pierre
Aubert, Lord of Fontenay. Located on the rue de Thorigny, in the Marais
district of Paris. The Hotel Sale is now considered to be one of the
finest historic houses in the district, in 1671, it was home to the
Embassy of the Republic of Venice. The building was acquired by the nation
after the French revolution. In 1964 the building came directly under the
control of the city of Paris, and is now home to the largest collection of
Picasso’s work, in the world.
Using the
metro system, the museum is a short walk from both Saint Paul and Chemin
Vert stations, just follow the signposts when you leave the station. Buses
that stop very close to the Picasso Museum are numbers 29, 96, 69 and 75. |
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Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 and started studying art in
1895. During his life he created many works of art including paintings,
sculptures, drawings, and ceramics. After his death in 1973,
The
collection passed to the French State in lieu of death duties. And it is
these works of art that are the basis of the collection that can be seen
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| In the collection are some superb Blue
and Rose Period paintings and a particularly stunning academic portrait of
Olga in an Armchair, 1917. You then progress on to some choice pieces of
Cubist art, which include the artists early essays into the new style
where the depicted figures are still easily discernible to the untrained
eye, and which, with hindsight, bear striking resemblance to early
Futurism. |
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Among the many paintings, you will find a 1901 self portrait, the 1906 two
brothers and self portrait, the 1931 woman in a red armchair and the 1937
portrait of Dora Moor.
The
collection is organized chronologically and visitors are guided through
the different periods in Picasso’s artistic development.
Picasso's own art collection is also based
here and includes sketches by Giorgio de Chirico and Degas, plus paintings
by Corot, Cezanne, Chardin, Renoir, and Matisse. |
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The
Crucifixion
1930 |
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The
Kiss |
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Inspired by Picasso's marriage to Jacqueline Roque. |
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