New Museum in Southern France Will House More Than a Thousand Works by Pablo Picasso

The future site of Aix-en-Provence’s Jacqueline and Pablo Picasso Museum
"Most artists would be honored to have one museum dedicated to their work. But when you’re Pablo Picasso you have several, including museums in Barcelona, Malaga, Paris, and southern France. Now, reports Gareth Harris at the Art Newspaper, the artist’s stepdaughter is hoping to add a new entry, and has recently purchased a convent in Aix-En-Provence to house a museum with the largest collection of Picasso works yet. ... Janie Cohen, a Picasso expert and the director of the Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont, predicts that the new space will be important for Picasso scholarship. 'Most of the works have been neither previously exhibited nor published,' she tells Harris. 'These are works that remained with the artist throughout his life. With the overview offered by the Musée Picasso in Paris, it strikes me as a terrific addition to have an important and overarching collection in southern France.' ..."
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