Museu Picasso

This article refers to the museum in Barcelona. There are a number of other Picasso museums.

View into the museum

The Museu Picasso (Catalan pronunciation: [muˈzɛw piˈkasu], "Picasso Museum") in Barcelona, Spain, has one of the most extensive collections of artworks by the 20th century Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. This is one of the most popular and most visited museums in Barcelona. The museum is housed in five adjoining medieval palaces in Barcelona's La Ribera.

The original idea for the museum came from Picasso’s lifelong friend, Jaume Sabartés. Picasso had given Sabartés great many paintings, drawings and prints during the course of their friendship. Originally Sabartés had planned to set up a museum based on his collection in Málaga, Picasso’s birthplace. It was Picasso himself who suggested that Barcelona would be more appropriate, given his long standing connections with the city.

The museum first opened in 1963 and the original collection was made up of Sabartés donation (574 works), the items that Picasso had previously given to the city of Barcelona, those that had previously been in the possession of the city’s museum of modern art plus other gifts from Picasso’s friends and collectors.

After Sabartés death in 1968, Picasso himself donated a large number of items to the museum, including approximately 1000 items of his early work which his family had been keeping for him ever since the time he first settled in France. This included school books, academic pieces and paintings from Picasso's Blue Period. There are now more than 3,500 works making up the permanent collection of the museum.

Picasso arrived in the city in 1894, when his father, an art teacher, had found work teaching in the city art school. Highlights of the collection include two of his first major works, The First Communion (1896), and Science and Charity (1897). In particular, the Museu Picasso reveals Picasso's relationship with the city of Barcelona, a relationship that was shaped in his youth and adolescence, and continued until his death.

Collection

The museum contains the following collections, organized by date:

1. Málaga
2. A Coruña
3. Barcelona
4. Málaga: summers of 1896 and 1897
5. Madrid
6. Horta de Sant Joan
7. Barcelona: 1899–1900
8. Paris: 1900–1901
9. The Blue Period
10. The Rose Period
11. Barcelona: 1917
12. 1917–1957
13. Las Meninas
14. Picasso engraver
15. Picasso ceramist

Exhibitions

The Museu Picasso frequently hosts special exhibitions presenting artworks by Picasso and other artists. From time to time, the museum also organizes seminars and lectures on subjects related to Picasso or on museological issues of interest given by specialists from throughout the world.

External links

• Museu Picasso website

Coordinates: 41°23′07″N 2°10′50″E / 41.38528°N 2.18056°E / 41.38528; 2.18056

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