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Château de Boisgeloup

Château de Boisgeloup

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Château de Boisgeloup is an 18th-century château near Gisors in Eure, Normandy, formerly owned by Pablo Picasso and now a private art gallery run by his grandson Bernard Ruiz-Picasso and gallerist Almine Rech.

Picasso bought Château de Boisgeloup with his wife Olga Khokhlova in June 1930.[1] There he developed his art into a more abstract style and experimented in sculpture.[2] He also produced there many of the prints from the Vollard Suite (1930–1937).[3]

Picasso left Boisgeloup before World War II after his break-up with Olga Khokhlova in 1937. She took over the château and it was inherited by their son Paulo Picasso in 1973 and then by Bernard Ruiz-Picasso in 1975.[4]

In 2002 Bernard Ruiz-Picasso and his wife Almine Rech founded the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte (FABA) to steer Picasso's legacy and in 2012 opened the château and Picasso's studio to the public, starting the first of a series of contemporary art exhibitions with Un Soir à Boisgeloup.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    "Sean Scully to take over Picasso's Château de Boisgeloup". The Art Newspaper. 10 September 2019. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  2. [2]
    "The Château that fired Picasso's imagination". Financial Times. 24 February 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  3. [3]
    Coppel, Stephen (2012). Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite. London: British Museum Press. ISBN 9780714126838
  4. [4]
    "The Château that fired Picasso's imagination". Financial Times. 24 February 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  5. [5]
    Richardson, John (2012). Un Soir À Boisgeloup: L'Atelier De Pablo Picasso. Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte. ISBN 9782805201936.

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