Picasso in Paris
 

It is a bit dissapointing the Picasso Museum is currently closed. What would be the second best place in Paris to view some of his works?

There are a few in the Pompidou...
http://www.centrepompidou.fr/educati...icasso-EN.html

Would you happen to know when the Picasso museum will re-open?

For more Picasso try Musée d'Orsay.
I believe there is a temporary exhibit now called Crime and Punishment from Goya to Picasso. There are also permanent exhibitions of his works.

Reopening Feb. 2012.

You don't have to leave the US for Picasso.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
APRIL 16, 2010.

Picasso to the Rescue

In tough times, museums play it safe by raiding their own closets

By CANDACE JACKSON

For its spring blockbuster exhibit, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is pulling together hundreds of Pablo Picasso's works, from the rarely seen "Erotic Scene," to iconic paintings like "Gertrude Stein" to a newly discovered image of a puppy found beneath layers of paint in "The Blind Man's Meal." The paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints in the exhibit all come from a single source: the museum's own vault.

The Met Bets on Picasso
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As museums around the country confront tight budgets and shrunken endowments, many are turning to a tactic well-suited to challenging economic times. They're cutting back on costly exhibits that travel among several venues and involve complicated art loans. Instead, they're dusting off the works they already have.

Several museums are pulling out their Picassos this spring, drawing on an artist who is universally popular. "Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," which opens to the public April 27, will feature about 300 of the 493 works by Picasso in the museum's permanent collection. On view now at New York's Museum of Modern Art is an exhibition that includes 100 of Picasso's printmaking works, all from the museum's collection. (MoMA owns about 1,100 of Picasso's 2,400 known prints.) At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, visitors can see works like "Three Musicians," the colorful Cubist painting of masked performers, along with more than 200 other works by Picasso and his contemporaries, nearly all owned by the museum. None of these exhibits will make stops at other museums.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...le_Lifestyle_5

If it will make you feel any better, I am very unimpressed with the Picasso museum.

Thanks Gretchen. My traveling companion just said last night that it's one he hadn't been to in Paris and maybe we should stop in. Now we don't have to go. Although I liked the one in Barcelona. All those many versions of Las Meninas (after Velazquez).

If it makes you feel any worse, I enjoyed the Paris Picasso and the Picasso in Barcelona.

I'll admit I'm not a super Picasso fan, but I agree, the Paris museum doesn't have his best works. That special exhibit at the Orsay on Crime does mention Picasso as an example of someone who painted crime but it doesn't seem to say they really have one of his works, although they might. The Orsay doesn't have much art of that genre or Cubist as it's in the Pompidou. I think they only own one Picasso.

Thanks for the replies. I get the impression his best works are strewn out all over the place? I had planned on visiting the Pompidou and will add the d'Orsey to my itinary.
Thanks again