Move over, Musée Picasso—there’s a new museum coming to France and it’s slated to have the largest Pablo Picasso collection in the world. Catherine Hutin-Blay, the artist’s stepdaughter, recently purchased an old convent in Aix-en-Provence with the intention of creating a museum dedicated to Picasso and his relationship with her mother, Jaqueline Roque (Picasso’s second and final wife). When Roque passed away in 1986, 13 years after her husband, Hutin-Blay inherited over 2,000 of Picasso’s pieces. The impressive collection features more than 1,000 paintings, in addition to drawings, sculptures, ceramics, painted plates, and photographs, according to artnet news.
The museum is set to open in 2021. But if you can’t wait until then or make it to Provence, don’t worry: Picasso is exhibited all over the world. Besides at Paris’s Musée Picasso, his works can also be found in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in Barcelona at the Museu Picasso, and in Antibes, France, to name a few…
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