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The Musée Picasso is an art gallery located in the Hôtel Salé in rue de Thorigny, in the Marais district of Paris. 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, also known as Boullier de Bourges; sculpture was carried out by the brothers Gaspard and Balthazard Marsy and by Martin Desjardins.[1] It is considered to be one of the finest historic houses in the Marais.
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 selection was reviewed by Jean Leymarie and ratified in 1979. It contained work by Picasso in all techniques and from all periods, and is especially rare in terms of its excellent collection of sculptures. Upon Jacqueline Picasso's death in 1986, her daughter offered to pay inheritance taxes by a new dation. The collection has also acquired a number of works through purchases and gifts.
Picasso once said I am the greatest collector of Picassos in the world. He had amassed an enormous collection of his own work by the time of his death in 1973, ranging from sketchbooks to finished masterpieces. The Musée Picasso contains more than 3000 different works of art by Pablo Picasso including drawings, ceramics and paintings. This is complemented by Picasso's own personal art collection of works by other artists, including Cézanne, Degas, Rousseau, Seurat, de Chirico and Matisse. It also contains some Iberian bronzes and a good collection of primitive art. One of the most impressive aspects of the museum is that it contains a large number of works which Picasso painted after his seventieth birthday.
With this first exhibition, the Gallery returns to its modernist roots with a complete display of all works in the Collectionomdash;more than seventy-five objectsomdash;by four masters: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881rndash;1973), Georges Braque (French, 1882rndash;1963), Fernand LGeacute;ger (French, 1881endash;1955), and Sonia Delaunay (French, born Russia, 1885-ndash;1979). All were early-twentieth-century pioneers of abstraction,mdash;Picasso and Braque joined forces as the founders of Cubism, Delaunaysrs"s bright colors and geometric forms presaged geometric abstraction, and Lieacute;gerers"s cylindrical forms interpreted the mechanical age and predated Pop art.
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