A new museum in the South of France will hold the largest collection of Picassos in the world

Musée Jacqueline et Pablo Picasso will be opened by the late painter’s stepdaughter…
The Dream by Pablo Picasso
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Alice Howarth16 February 2018

There are already several museums dedicated to the work of Pablo Picasso but another one is set to open in 2021, boasting the most amount of works under one room by the late artist.

The work is to be donated to the museum by Picasso's stepdaughter, 70-year-old Catherine Hutin-Blay, who was the daughter of Picasso’s second wife, Jacqueline Roque. Following her mother’s death in 1986, she inherited 2,000 artworks and is set to donate half of them to the new museum.

The museum will be in housed in an old château in Aix-en-Provence. Hutin-Blay and her company, Madame Z - named after Picasso’s nickname for Jacqueline - reportedly purchased the building for $14 million.

The building, which is set to open in 2021, will have over 16,000 square feet of exhibition space. Nearly 11,000 square feet will be dedicated to permanent displays, while over 5,000 square feet will be reserved for temporary shows.

It will also have a 200-seat auditorium for events. Most of the artwork is said to have been created between 1953 and 1975 and much of it will never have been on display before.

It's said Hutin-Bay had wanted to open a museum of her stepfather's work for years but due to inheritance tax said she needed to work out her finances first as well as sort out the various legal issues that followed the painter's death.

Provence by Weekend Journals - in pictures

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As one of, if not, the most famous painter of the 20th century - something tells us Aix-en-Provence is going to get a lot more crowded in 2021…

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