Picasso: The Legend and the Museum
Summary
- >> Two Picasso, not to be confound, Picasso and Pablo
- >> Jean Cassou and Gorges Salles, the anticipation of a museum
- >> The Dation
- >> Archiving of a life!
- >> Choosing a Venue for the Museum
- >> A major construction in the capital city
- >> A hotel where Balzac did his humanities
- >> In the XIXth century, the hotel was taken over by the Central School of Arts and Manufactures
- >> In the XXth century, a monument tailor made for Picasso
- >> Installing the Museum
- >> An area for a new policy welcomed by the public
- >> The New Project
"Picasso, who painted before he learned to read, seems to have been charged with the mission of using his paintbrush to express everything that exists." Charles Morice, 1902, catalogue, Mercure de France
The history of the Hôtel Salé on which this text is based was described in detail by Jean-Pierre Babelon in a booklet published for the museum's opening in 1985, currently held in the museum's archives.