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Picasso museum in Paris
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Right in the middle of the fashionable Marais
district in Paris, in between Pompidou Center and Place des Vosges,
the Picasso museum is
entirely devoted to the great Spanish painter Pablo Picasso (1881/1973).
Hosted in Hôtel Salé, a 1656 superb city mansion
(right), it was
opened in 1985 with 203 paintings and 156 pieces of sculpture. They came
from Picasso
heritage paid to the French state as death duties.
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The Picasso museum in Paris |
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Pablo Picasso first came
to Paris in 1900. With other painters, he then turned Montmartre,
a hilly Paris district, into the fabric of modern painting.
Pablo Picasso spent most
of his life in Paris and Provence in the south of France.
The Picasso museum in Paris was further
enriched in 1990 with 47 paintings from Jacqueline Picasso's heritage.
Among the many Picasso's paintings, you will find a 1901 self
portrait, the 1906 two brothers and self portrait, the 1917 portrait of Olga in an
armchair, the 1925 kiss, the 1931 woman in a red armchair (left) and the 1937 portrait of
Dora Moor. |
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| Whether you like Pablo Picasso paintings and pieces of sculpture, you will be
moved by the colorful and expressing masterpieces displayed in the
museum.
A very nice and
intimate museum in the middle of a fashionable and typically Parisian district.
A nice district to stay in too during your visit to Paris. You can
find and book a hotel
near Picasso museum in Paris.
Learn about the other great Paris
museums
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Musée national Picasso
Hôtel Salé
5, rue de Thorigny
75003 Paris
Tel: 33 (0)1 42 71 25 21
Opening hours:
9.30am to 5.30pm from October 1st to March 31st, 9.30am
to 6pm from April 1st to September 30th.
 Saint-Paul station on line 1 (10 minutes
walk).
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