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The Musée Picasso is situated in the heart of historic Paris, and
has a collection of several thousand works of Pablo Picasso.
Picasso was born in 1881 and he began to study art in 1895. During his
life he created diverse works: painting, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, engraving,
and even poetry. After his death in 1973, many of Picasso's works went to the
French state, which
decided to form a museum with the collection.
To house the collection, they chose to use a seventeenth-century hotel, situated
in the Marais. This is the Hôtel Salé that was built in 1656 for the general
Aubert de Fontenay. Before housing the musée Picasso, the hotel was already
well-known. It was leased to the ambassador of Venice, and it became the Central School
of Art and Manufacture (and then the School of "métiers d'art"), and finally it
was leased to the state in 1975. The restoration of the museum was completed in 1985.
Today, there are 203 paintings, 191 sculptures, 85 ceramics, and over 3000 drawings,
engravings, and manuscripts in the museum. Besides the personal
collection of Picasso, the museum also has some works of Cézanne and Matisse.
Hôtel Salé; 5, rue de Thorigny, 75003
01 42 71 25 21
01 48 04 75 46
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