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Bearded, bundled in his greatcoat, the young man stares defiantly at passersby as if to say that although he is only 19, he already knows that he will dominate the art world for the rest of his life. If anyone doubts the implicit truth of Pablo Picasso's 1901 self-portrait, he has only to walk farther into Paris' new Picasso Museum, which opened last week. There, spread out like all the treasures from Aladdin's cave, are the gems of nearly three-quarters of a century of labor: 228 paintings, 149 sculptures, nearly 1,500 drawings and just...
...museum is perhaps the best excuse ever devised for high inheritance taxes. After Picasso's death in 1973, the French government calculated that his heirs owed it an estimated $50 million, about 20% of an estate that totaled $250 million. Under an enlightened 1968 law, the many heirs could pay in art rather than cash, and that is what they finally did, a decision that has given France, where the painter lived for 68 of his 91 years, the greatest Picasso collection in the world. (The runner-up: Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...Claude Picasso thought that works of the prophet of modernism should have been housed in a modern building. Others pointed out that Picasso himself had never built nor lived in a new building and preferred his monumental paintings to be hung in monumental spaces. The antimodernists prevailed, perhaps fortunately, given the deplorable standards of new French architecture. The Hotel Sale, built in 1656, was chosen. Located in the Marais district, the museum is a short walk from the Pompidou Center, whose exterior is closer to an oil refinery than a museum of modern art. Conversion of the dilapidated Sale began...
Although declared illegal by the Student Handbook, pets are as ubiquitous in students' rooms as teddy bears and the Picasso poster of the man on his horse...
...exhibit of the nineteenth-century Impressionist drew record crowds in London and Paris, where it stayed for four and five months, respectively. In Paris, Renoir drew crowds averaging 8,668 visitors per day. In London, it surpassed the attendance record of the Hayward Gallery's most popular previous exhibit, "Picasso's Picassos," by more than 100,000 visitors...