Yahoo News Picasso Museum in Paris opens artist's rare archives to the internet
The Picasso Museum in Paris this week launched an online portal that provides access to tens of thousands of little-seen photos, artworks and other memorabilia from the iconic artist's archives.
It comes ahead of a study centre dedicated to Pablo Picasso, due to open near the museum later this year, for researchers and artists in residence.
The digital portal opens up access to the museum's vast collection of artworks, essays, conferences, podcasts and interviews.
Many have never before been accessible to the public, including some 19,000 photos.
In the coming years, some 200,000 texts from Picasso's workshops will also be digitised and uploaded.
Picasso was born in 1881 in Spain and lived almost all his life in France, where he died in 1973. The family entrusted his archives to the French state in 1992.
Patchwork of influences
France held several exhibitions throughout 2023 to mark 50 years since his death.
Meanwhile the Paris Picasso Museum opened a new exhibition on Tuesday, "Picasso: Consuming Images".
It places dozens of famous works by Picasso alongside the historical masters that inspired him – including Poussin, Rembrandt, Delacroix, Goya and Matisse – as well as many other images and concepts that he drew from.
"Picasso grew up with a flood of new images and works that he went to see in person in Paris museums," said curator Cécile Godefroy.
(with AFP)
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