Word: fontenay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...museum, in a sense, closes a circle begun 330 years ago. The house built by Aubert de Fontenay, royal collector of the salt tax, now contains a collection assembled by 20th century taxes. The artist would have relished the irony. Said the influential Le Monde: "One knows that Picasso is in his place in the noble building from the time of Louis XIV. He is home...