Picasso Masterpieces - Musee Picasso

The new PICASSO MASTERPIECES at MUSEE PICASSO in the Marais opened Monday at 9 sharp on the first day of La Rentree (the French return from vacance & back to school). You see signs everywhere, "Bonne rentrée". There is joy, excitement in the air for a new beginning.

And much joy to be experienced in the new exhibit at the musée Picasso.

And great depth of his masterworks

Drawings Picasso made from other masterpieces

Like this Rembrandt self-portrait borrowed from the Louvre.

Picasso's sculptures are well represented.

Family photos from David Douglas Duncan add an intimacy to the grand pieces. Claude Picasso riding the small horse his father made for him seen above on the daze far right.

A wall of black and white lithographs mostly of francoise Gilot.

Dora Mar in an iconic oil portrait.

Did Picasso's combo profile/frontal view portraits start with this childish 3" paper cutout?

A room full of small whimsical cutouts and scraps in the exhibition

Birds made from metallic bottle tops

A tiny puppet set made for his daughter Maya. Many artists either neglect their children or paint them oddly like Lucien Freud. Picasso was engaged and inspired.

Childlike himself, Picasso painting on the floor.

And sociable unlike many introverted artists. Those eyes.

An early hand drawing

Picasso's obsession with the artist and his model/subject.

Wonderful Duncan shot of Picasso observing his offspring as the pet goat gambols not far from the bronze goat. Walking home from the museum I spotted two sisters let loose after their first day of school, so full of joy. The PICASSO MASTERPIECES will give you joy too. A don't-miss among the new exhibitions opening all over Paris for La Rentree. Thank you for reading Parisbreakfast. If you'd like to receive Parisbreakfast letters and maps in your mailbox, look in my Etsy shop. 

BONNE RENTRÉE!