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Picasso was born in Malaga in 1881. He moved with his family to Barcelona at the age of 14. The big city offered him great opportunities to exploit his qualities. In 1897 he had his first public exhibition at the Quatre Gats.
The Picasso Museum is the most visited museum of Barcelona. The Museum is located at the Carrer Montcada - a street known for Barcelona s most elegant medieval palaces. It's housed in three strikingly beautiful stone mansions
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In the museum are almost 4,000 works of the artist, who started publishing his paintings when he was only sixteen years old. The opinions about the Picasso museum Barcelona are different. Some like it because of the quantity and variety in the paintings. Some experts say that it doesn t contain his most important work.
The Picasso museum Barcelona has a lot of work from Picasso s training period. But it also has a couple of import pieces from is best years. One of the most famous works in the museum is the serie Las Meninas (1957).
The museum shows numerous works that trace the artist's early years, and is especially strong on his Blue Period with canvases like The Defenceless, ceramics and his early works from the 1890s. Displays include childhood sketches, pictures from the beautiful Rose and Blue periods.
The second floor displays works from Barcelona and Paris, from 1900 to 1904, with a lot of his impressionist-influenced works. The evocative Portrait of Senyora Canals (1905), from his Pink Period is also on display. Among the later works, all executed in Cannes in 1957, consists mostly of studies on Diego Velazquez s masterpiece.
It was Picasso s firm wish to leave the imprints of his art in the city. The family of Picasso gave all his work as a gift the museum.
The Picasso museum Barcelona recently has been both expanded and renovated. The new space is used to display some of his earliest works. The new rooms opened in January 2008.
Opening hours and entrance fee
Address: Montcada 15-23 08003 Barcelona
Opening Hours: Tuesdays till Sundays from 10:00h to 20:00h
Entrance: museum + temporarey exhibition: 9 euros
Temporary exhibition: 5.80 euros
Metro station: Arc de Triomf Station, Liceu Station, Jaume I Station
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