Culture | Picasso in Paris

Home and away

After five years of renovation and controversy, the Musée Picasso finally reopens

Oct 25th 2014

THE Musée Picasso enjoys virtually sacred status in France. It symbolises the union of Pablo Picasso, the most prolific artist of the 20th century, and Paris, the city he loved and lived in. The 5,000 works in its collection have peerless provenance; they belonged to Picasso himself, and were given to the French state by his heirs in lieu of inheritance tax. The museum reopens its doors on October 25th after a five-year renovation of its stately home, a 17th-century hôtel particulier in the city’s fashionable Marais district.

This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “Home and away”