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0 Musée Picasso Paris

On the death of the Spanish-born artist . Self-Portrait
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), who lived Poverty, loneliness and
most of his life in France, the French State the onset of winter all
made the end of 1901,
inherited many of his works in lieu of death when this picture was
duties. It used them to establish the Musée painted, a particularly
Picasso Paris, which opened in 1985. The difficult time
museum is housed in a large 17th-century for Picasso.
mansion, the Hôtel Salé, in the Marais.
The original character of the Hôtel, which
was built in 1656 for Aubert de Fontenay,
a salt-tax collector (salé means
“salty”), has been preserved. The
museum holds the world’s largest
collection of Picasso’s works –
paintings, sculptures, ceramics,
drawings and etchings – covering
all his creative periods.

Violin and Sheet Music
This collage (1912) is from Second floor
the artist’s Synthetic
Cubist period.

. The Two Brothers (1906)
During the summer of 1906, Picasso
returned to Catalonia in Spain,
where he painted this picture.

. The Kiss (1969)
Picasso married Jacqueline
Roque in 1961, and at
around the same time, he Basement
returned to the familiar
themes of the couple and
of the artist and model.

Gallery Guide
The basement reconstructs Picasso’s
studios using his prints, photographs
and personal items. The next three levels
follow his work chronologically, from
1895 up to his death in 1973. Some
rooms follow a theme, such as his Blue
and Pink periods, self-portraits and
subjects like bull-fighting, family and Woman with a Mantilla (1949)
war. The top floor holds Picasso’s private Picasso extended his range
art collection, with works by the likes of when he began working in
Renoir, Cezanne, Braque and Matisse. ceramics in 1948.

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