articles/Muse Picasso reopens aprs la guerre — theartnewspaper.com

Picasso's The Goat, 1950, on view in the newly rehung Musée Picasso. Photo: REUTERS/Benoit Tessier The war is over. On Saturday, 25 October, the 133rd anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s birth, the museum named after him is due to reopen in Paris. It has been closed for the past five years undergoing a major and controversial renovation. This long-awaited event follows a series of frustrating delays and contested construction work that finally pushed President François Hollande to sack Anne Baldassari, the museum’s head for the past decade. In June, Laurent Le Bon, 45, was given an emergency mission to reopen the Musée Picasso.

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