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See also: Museum Picasso

The museum Picasso is installed in the 3 {{E}} district of Paris, district known as of the Marais .

The hotel Salted , formerly ironically qualified “house of the middle-class man gentleman” in reference to the comedy of Molière, is built between 1656 and 1659 by Jean Boullier of Bourges, for the account of Pierre Aubert of Fontenay, gentleman tourangeau and his wife, Marie Chastelain, owner of a ground of 3.700 m ² acquired at Hospital-Saint-Gervais. The former lackey, ambitious and conceited, grows rich as a farmer by gabelles (it perceives the tax on salt). The hotel preserves the nickname of “salted” after its ruin, caused by the lawsuit of Fouquet in 1661.

Successive owners

The building counts some famous tenants, among whom the ambassador of Venice (between 1668 and 1688), François de Neufville, duke of Villeroy and Marshal of France, which takes care of interior decoration. The hotel, put on sale by Adjudication, is then acquired by Nicolas Camus (first president of the Cour of the assistances) by adjudication in 1728, then resold with Philibert Thiroux de Chammeville in 1756. With its death, in 1771, it is his/her daughter and her son-in-law, Louis Leclerc, marquis de Juigné, who inherit it. Seized with the French revolution like good of emigrants, the building becomes the literary national deposit in which the works will be gathered coming from the surrounding convents. Resold thereafter, the hotel shelters several institutions, of which the pension Ganser and Beuzelin which will have as a pupil Balzac in 1815, then the central École of Arts and Manufactures, of 1829 with 1884. The private mansion is then repurchased by the bronzier of art Henri Vian (the father of Boris Vian), which makes of it its residence and a showroom. Rented by the Town of Paris starting from 1944, the latter installs there its school of the Trades of art, but that strongly contributes to the degradation of interior decoration. The municipality, which buys the hotel in 1962, delays its restoration for budgetary reasons.

Its architecture

The Porche opens on a court in hemicycle slightly oval broadside of low wings surmounted by a platform roof crowned of a stone balustrade. The left side is only one construction in trompe-l'oeil. The passage of the right wing gives access at a small court, which formerly sheltered the stables and the kitchens, emerging street of Seam-Saint-Gervais directly. A corridor then connected directly the kitchens and the central body of the home.

The principal frontage including/understanding a stage and an attic above the ground floor, presents a fore-part of three spans, crowned of a pediment carved with the weapons of Aubert (heads of dogs), and a second fore-part, of only one central span. Side garden, the frontage is largest of the Marais.

The main building , doubled in-depth to arrange there a row side court and side garden, allows thereafter the installation of a carved staircase. Several artists will contribute to the decoration of the hotel, among which Claude Buirette for the skirtings and joineries, his/her son Jacques, the brothers Marsy and Martin Desjardins.

The museum

The Salted hotel, entirely restored except for the Lambris of the living room which were masked, shelters since 1985 the Picasso museum arranged by the architect Roland Simounet. It contains the richest world collection of works of the artist and covers all his periods. The heirs brought initially, by the procedure of Dation in payment, 203 paintings, 158 sculptures, 16 papers stuck, 29 tables reliefs, 83 ceramics and more than 3.000 drawings and prints. Then, a donation, initiated by Jacqueline Picasso, came to enrich the museum in 1990. She relates to the Portrait of Jacqueline to the cross hands , as 24 notebooks of additional drawings, the sculptures and ceramics. To date, the collection includes/understands 251 stuck paintings, 160 sculptures, 16 papers, 29 table-reliefs, 107 ceramics, 1.500 drawings and 58 notebooks, the totality of engraved work, with different the states from each board, and the illustrated books.

The showrooms present also certain parts coming from the personal collection of Picasso among which works of Cézanne, Matisse, the Douanier Rousseau, Derain, Braque, Miro, and of the objects of African Art.

Directors of the Picasso museum

See too

Exposures

  • Critical of the exposure Picasso Bacon: critical life of the images
  • of the exposure Around the Young ladies of Avignon

External bonds

  • virtual Visit of the museum Picasso
  • Official site of the Museum Picasso

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