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From October 20, 2015, a total exhibition of the collection will occupy the entire museum in a huge visual collage in the line of the artist who said, «a painter’s studio has to be a laboratory.»
Inaugurated in 1985 by the President of the Republic, François Mitterrand, the Museum found in the Hotel Salé a prestigious and original setting that perfectly matches Picasso.
Built in the seventeenth century by Jean Boullier for Pierre Aubert Lord of Fontenay, farmer-general of the salt tax, this place took the nickname «Hôtel Salé» which remained attached to it.
The architect Jean-François Bodin oversaw its renovation and
its extension between 2009 and 2014, preserving its historical heritage.
Pan Flute - Summer 1923- Oil on canvas 205 x 174 cm Dation in 1979 - Inv.: MP79 © RMN-GP/Jean Gilles Berizzi © Succession Picasso 2014
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