Paris' Picasso Museum was closed when we were last in the city, in 2014. It had been closed, for renovations, for five years. At length, the ministry of culture ran out of patience and sacked the director. The museum opened, to great fanfare, in October, 2014; under new management. We are not Picasso fans, but this is one of the great museums. The 5,000 works of art, manuscripts, notes, sketches, etc., came to France in lieu of payment of death taxes. The collection is housed in the ancient Hotel Sale in the Marais.
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| Thus |
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| L'Arbor, 1907 |
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| Verre D'Absinthe, 1912-1914 |
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The museum is noted for its collection of
Picasso sculpture |
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| Thus |
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| Stairwell in the Hotel Sale |
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| Femme a L'Enfant, 1961 |
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| Didn't get its name |
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| Picasso also did sculpture in metal...OK, not Rodin |
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| And other media |
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| Jeanne, 1901 |
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| Autoportrait, 1901 |
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| He was always sketching something... |
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The hotel in Antibes evidently did not accept this as payment
...too bad for them |
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| Portrait de Marie-Therese, 1937 |
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| Vaulting in the ancient Hotel Sale |
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| La Baie de Cannes, 1950 |
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| Cafe a Royan, 1940 |
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| Corrida: La Mort du Torero, 1933 |
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| Bacchanale avec Chevreau et spectateur, 1959 |
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Not quite the entertainer that Dali was, but he had his moments...not pictured:
items from his collection of works by Matisse, Courbet, Renoir, et al. |
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