Musée Picasso

Musée Picasso Paris (French: [myze pikaso]; English: Paris Picasso Museum) is an art gallery located in the Hôtel Salé (English: Salé Hall) on the Rue de Thorigny, in the Marais district of Paris, France, dedicated to the work of the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). The museum collection includes more than 5,000 works of art including paintings, sculptures, drawings, ceramics, prints, engravings, and notebooks, as well as tens of thousands of archived pieces from Picasso's personal repository, including the artist's photographic archive, personal papers, correspondence, and author manuscripts. A large portion of items were donated by Picasso's family after his death, in accord with the wishes of the artist, who. Building The hôtel particulier that houses the collection was built between 1656 and 1659 for Pierre Aubert, seigneur de Fontenay, a tax farmer who became rich collecting the gabelle or salt tax (the name of the building means "salted"). The architect was Jean Boullier from Bourges . The sculpture was carried out by the brothers Gaspard and Balthazard Marsy and by Martin Desjardins . The mansion has changed hands several times by sale or inheritance although the occupants have included the Embassy of the Republic of Venice (1671), then François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi. Collection Formation of the collection Pablo Picasso, 1918, Portrait d'Olga dans un fauteuil (Olga in an Armchair) , oil on canvas, 130 × 88.8 cm In 1968, France created a law that permitted heirs to pay inheritance taxes with works of art instead of money, as long as the art is considered an important contribution to the French cultural heritage. This is known as a dation , and it is allowable only in exceptional circumstances. Dominique Bozo , a curator of national museums, selected those works that were to become the dation Picasso . This.