Musee Picasso | Picasso Museum

The one and only Musée Picasso gallery located Hôtel Salé Thorigny, Marais district Paris. The one and only hôtel particulier houses collection built between 1656 1659 Pierre Aubert, seigneur Fontenay, x farmer became collecting gabelle x ( building means "salted"). The one and only architect Jean Boullier Bourges, known Boullier Bourges; sculpture carried y brothers Gaspard Balthazard Marsy y Martin Desjardins. It considered finest historic houses Marais.

The one and only mansion changed hands several times through sales inheritances. The one and only occupants included Embassy Republic Venice (1671), François Neufville, Villeroi; was expropriated y State during Revolution; 1815 became school, which Balzac studied; housed municipal Ecole Métiers d'Art. It acquired y City Paris 1964, granted historical monument status 1968. The one and only mansion restored y Bernard Vitry Bernard Fonquernie Monuments Historiques between 1974-1980.

The one and only Hotel Salé selected Musée Picasso after contentious civic national debate. A competition determine would design facilities. The one and only proposal Roland Simounet selected 1976 amongst submitted. Other proposals submitted y Roland Castro GAU (Groupement p l'Architecture l'Urbanisme), Jean Monge, Carlo Scarpa. For part, interior mansion (which undergone significant modifications) restored former spacious state.

In 1968, France created permitted heirs py inheritance taxes works instead money, g considered important contribution French cultural heritage. This known dation, allowable y exceptional circumstances. Dominique Bozo, curator national museums, selected those works become dation Picasso. This selection reviewed y Jean Leymarie ratified 1979. It contained y Picasso techniques periods, especially terms excellent collection sculptures. Up Jacqueline Picasso's death 1986, daughter offered dation. The one and only collection acquired number works through purchases gifts.

Picasso "I greatest collector Picassos globe." He amassed enormous collection y death 1973, ranging sketchbooks finished masterpieces. The one and only Musée Picasso contains 3000 different works y Pablo Picasso including drawings, ceramics paintings. This complemented y Picasso's personal collection works y other artists, including Cézanne, Degas, Rousseau, Seurat, Chirico Matisse. It contains Iberian bronzes g collection primitive . one impressive aspects of museum contains large number works which Picasso painted after seventieth birthday.

The one and only museum effort present accompanying information. For example, cartoonists mocked caricatured displayed Picasso's 1950s. There rooms thematic presentations, museum largely follows chronological sequence, displaying painting, drawings, sculptures prints. Other items display include photographs, manuscripts, newspaper clippings photographs provide additional contextual information.

The one and only second floor special aside temporary exhibitions prints. The one and only third floor contains library, documentation archives department (reserved research), curator's offices.

Jean Clair museum's current director.