PARIS.
After endless delays and controversies, the Picasso Museum in Paris reopens on October 25th, which has been closed for over five years due to renovations.
And Anna Baldassari, the former director of the Museum, who was fired due to delays, will be responsible for the first exhibition. A complicated affair that also saw the great artist’s son, Claude Picasso, who, as well as exerting strong pressure on the Board of Directors to open the facility in June, had accused the former French Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti of “caring” of the father. The works would have cost over 52 million euros, of which 19 were set by the same Ministry.
The Picasso National Museum, housed since 1985 in the seventeenth-century Palazzo Salé, in the Marais district and built by the architect Jean Boullier, houses about 5,000 works by the master, together with those of his contemporary friends and colleagues such as Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Rousseau, Braque, Derain, Modigliani and Miró.