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Musée Picasso Born in Spain, Pablo
J4 ⌂ Hôtel Salé, Picasso first moved to
5 rue de Thorigny 75003 Paris in 1904 as a young
q St-Sébastien Froissart, artist, drawn by the city’s
St-Paul, Chemin Vert bohemian art scene and
# 10:30am–6pm Tue–Fri; raucous nightlife. Later he
EXPERIENCE Paris: Île de la Cité, Marais and Beaubourg
9:30am–6pm Sat, Sun & settled in the south of France.
hols) ¢ 1 Jan, 1 May, 25 & 31 After 1934, Picasso’s rejection of
Dec ∑ museepicassoparis.fr Franco’s regime meant he would
never return to his homeland.
On the death of the Spanish- Nonetheless, throughout his life
born artist Pablo Picasso in France he used Spanish themes
(1881–1973), who lived most in his art, such as the bull and the
of his life in France, the French guitar, which he
State inherited a quarter of his asso ciated with PICASSO’S
works in lieu of death duties. his Andalusian THE HEAD
In 1986, it used them to create childhood. OF A WOMAN
the Musée Picasso in the
beautifully restored Hôtel Salé.
Comprising 5,000 works, The main building is the Hôtel The 17th-century Hôtel le
including over 200 paintings, Carnavalet, which was built as a Peletier, opened in 1989,
158 sculptures, 88 ceramic town house in 1548 by Nicolas features re onstructions of
works, and 3,000 sketches and Dupuis. The literary hostess early 20th-century interiors
engravings, this unique collec- Madame de Sévigné lived here and artifacts from the
tion shows the huge range between 1677 and 1696, enter- Revolution and Napoleonic
and variety of Picasso’s work, taining the intelligentsia of the era. The Orangery houses a
including examples from his day and writing her celebrated section devoted to Prehistory
Blue, Pink and Cubist periods. Lettres. Many of her belongings and Gallo-Roman Paris. The
Highlights include his Blue are in the first-floor exhibition collection includes pirogues
period Self-portrait, painted at covering the Louis XIV era. discovered in 1992, during an
age 20; Still Life with Caned Chair,
which introduced collage to
Cubism; the Neo-Classical Pipes
of Pan; and The Crucifixion.
The museum frequently
loans canvases for exhibitions
elsewhere, so some works will
be on show in other galleries.
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Musée Carnavalet
J4 ⌂ 16 rue des Francs-
Bourgeois 75003
q St-Paul, Chemin Vert
¢ Closed for major reno-
vations until 2020
∑ carnavalet.paris.fr
Devoted to the history of Paris
since prehistoric times, this vast
museum is in two adjoining
mansions. The interiors include
fully decorated rooms with
gilded panelling, furniture and
objets d’art; many works of
art, such as paintings and
sculptures of prominent per- Inside Maison de Victor
sonalities; and engravings Hugo, now a museum of
showing Paris being built. the author’s life and work
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