Picasso Museum in Paris is opening an online archive. This launch also precedes opening a study center dedicated to Pablo Picasso, which is scheduled to open later this year near the museum.
The online portal provides access to the museum’s extensive collection of artworks, essays, conferences, podcasts and interviews. Most of them have never been accessible to the public, including 19,000 photos. Over the next few years, around 200,000 texts from Picasso’s workshops will also be digitized.
Picasso, born in Spain in 1881, spent the majority of his life in France until his death in 1973. In 1992, his family handed over his archives to the French state.
Meanwhile, the Picasso Museum opened a new exhibition yesterday, “Picasso: Consuming Images.” The exhibition showcases many famous works by Picasso alongside the historical masters that inspired him, including Poussin, Rembrandt, Delacroix, Goya and Matisse, and many other images and concepts that he drew inspiration from.
“Picasso grew up with a flood of new images and works that he went to see in person in Paris museums,” said curator Cecile Godefroy.
Godefroy noted that Picasso’s interest in images extended well beyond academic sources, pointing out his fascination with postcards, art magazines, photographs, television, cinema, comic strips, and advertising, which foreshadowed the images we encounter in the era of social media.
The Picasso Museum is an art museum located in the Marais district of Paris, France. It is dedicated to showcasing the works of the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
