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  • A singular and growing collection

    14-02-2019
    Trasllat de la donació de més de 900 obres de Picasso a la ciutat de Barcelona - 8 de maig de 1970 - Foto: Pérez de Rozas - Procedència: Arxiu Fotogràfic de Barcelona – AHCB-AF

    The birth and creation of the Museu Picasso was not easy in a country and a city in which there were quite a few collectors of the painter and the environment surrounding Franco was against ...

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    Author: Museu Picasso
    Collection Catherine Hutin, Collection, David Douglas Duncan, Galeria Joan Gaspar, Jacqueline Roque Permalink 1 10435 Visits
  • Inhabitants of the Museum: Pepe-Hillo, an authentic bullfighter

    31-01-2019

    In our series about  the inhabitants of the Museu Picasso of Barcelona, we would like to dedicate this article to José Delgado Guerra, better known as Pepe-Hillo (sometimes written without the either the ‘h’ or the hyphen: Pepe Illo), who apart from being a key figure in the evolution of bullfighting, also achieved major popularity with his rather unorthodox style.

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    Author: Museu Picasso
    Collection, Inhabitants of the Museum bullfighting, habitants del museu, inhabitants of the museum Permalink 0 12215 Visits
  • The American adventure of Jaume Sabartés

    17-01-2019

    In the Barcelona years of Pablo Picasso and Jaume Sabartés, the painter always represented his friend as a romantic and melancholic poet. But Bohemian times can never go on too long. The young Sabartés would ...

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    Author: Museu Picasso
    Collection, Documentation, Exhibitions, Historical Curiosity Guatemala, Guatemala, Jaume Sabartés, Jaume Sabartés, Margarida Cortadella Permalink 0 14414 Visits
  • Inhabitants of the Museum: Yvette Guilbert

    20-09-2018

    On occasion of the presentation, this September, of a selection of works from the Musée d’Orsay within the context of our permanent collection, which we have given the title of “Picasso discovers Paris”, we want to enlarge our gallery of inhabitants of the museum with a biographical profile of the singer, actress and composer Yvette Guilbert. Star of the chanson from the end of the 19th century, Guilbert is most likely the protagonist of two of the paintings that Picasso did on his first trips to the French capital: «The End of the Number» and «The Fortuneteller».

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    Author: Museu Picasso
    Collection, Historical Curiosity, Inhabitants of the Museum habitants del museu, inhabitants of the museum, París, París, Picasso Permalink 0 19174 Visits
  • Earth, water and fire, ingredients of the kitchen and pottery

    7-09-2018

    Earth, water and fire are the essential ingredients of the kitchen and pottery, activities linked in the origin of humanity. For the first humans, fire represented a point of inflection due to the incorporation in the diet of cooked foods, but also for other uses such as protection against predators or the development of utensils made from ceramics and other materials.

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    Author: Museu Picasso
    Collection, Exhibitions bullfighting, ceramics, gastronomy, Madoura, sculpture Permalink 0 10461 Visits
  • The birth of a young promise in the Quatre Gats

    12-07-2018

    The alehouse-tavern-hostel called the Quatre Gats opened its doors in 1897, during a period of full artistic effervescence. Barcelona was living a "golden age" of lights and shade with the demographic growth caused by the ...

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    Author: Museu Picasso
    Collection, Historical Curiosity cartellisme, cartellisme, Catalan cuisine, cuina catalana, cuina catalana Permalink 0 18608 Visits
  • Inhabitants of the Museum: Benedetta Bianco, Mrs Canals

    3-07-2018

    In a previous post, we already talked to you about the origin of Mrs. Canals, one of the most outstanding portraits of the collection of the Museu Picasso of Barcelona, which the artist from Malaga painted in the autumn of 1905 while he was living in Paris.  But, without putting to one side the relation with Picasso, on this occasion we want to delve in a little more into the figure of a woman who also appears in works of other artists of the period, and who would often become the heart and soul of parties.

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    Author: Museu Picasso
    Collection, Historical Curiosity, Inhabitants of the Museum Benedetta Bianco, habitants del museu, inhabitants of the museum, Mrs. Canals Permalink 3 17815 Visits
  • The inhabitants of the museum: Fernande Olivier, Picasso’s first muse

    18-04-2018

    Fernande Olivier is another of the inhabitants of the museum to be found housed within the Picasso museum. She is known for having been Picasso’s first muse and for having written two books about their relationship. The story of Olivier is so intense that it has even been recently re-told by the author Isabel Clara-Simó.

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    Author: Museu Picasso
    Collection, Historical Curiosity, Inhabitants of the Museum Fernande Olivier, Fernande Olivier, habitants del museu, inhabitants of the museum Permalink 2 26761 Visits
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