The Christmas holidays are for resting and disconnecting, strolling through the streets with Christmas lights, well wrapped up, meeting up with family and friends, and sharing many meals, but it's also a time for doing ...
The Donation of David Douglas Duncan: A little big story
On 21 September 2012, David Douglas Duncan called me to tell me he would like to donate a number of his photographs on Picasso. I suggested he could present the donation on the same day ...
Attracting donors and collectors: the case of the Portland Museum of Art
We recently welcomed Mark Bessire, director of the Portland Museum of Art, to speak in the seminar on collecting and sponsorship organized by the museum and the Fundación Godia. We felt that his experience in ...
Art and patronage: from the private collection to public heritage, and the legal aspects that make it possible
At the end of October the exhibition “Picasso ceramics. Jacqueline’s gift to Barcelona” was presented, an exhibition that commemorates the 30th anniversary of the donation of 41 ceramic pieces from her private collection that Jacqueline ...
A Donation to the Picasso. With a Cat
For all of us at the Museum the greeting card for Christmas 2010 and this new year that has just begun had a star that was foreseeable but at the same time unexpected: a photograph ...
The Offering : a surprise donation to the museum
One of the greatest joys of my professional life was when we learned from the Daily Telegraph of 1 May 1984 about the will of the late Lord Amulree. Basil William Sholto Mackenzie, 2nd Baron ...
21 images of what happened in 2009 in the Picasso Museum
Looking back over 2009, what can we say we are proud of? Of the number of visitors? Of course that's important but not more than other aspects, although naturally we value and are very grateful ...
The Why and the How of the New Presentation of Las Meninas
The return of Las Meninas to the museum after being out on loan for the exhibitions Picasso et les maitres, at the Grand Palais in Paris, and Picasso. Challenging the Past, at the National Gallery ...