Picasso works ceded to France soon to be among national collections
A painting belonging to the Picasso estate, ceded to France by his daughter Maya, is unveiled at a press conference in Paris. In all, eight works by the painter and a sculpture that belonged to him will enter France's national collections at the Picasso Museum in 2022.
Eight unpublished works by Picasso ceded to France by his daughter Maya have joined the collections of the Picasso Museum in Paris, the largest collection in the world of the works of the master.
One of them, in black and white, dating from 1938, was revealed to the press on Monday, in the presence of the Ministers of Culture Roselyne Bachelot and of the Economy, Bruno Le Maire.
Entitled "Child with a pacifier sitting under a chair", it probably represents Maya as a child, hidden under the furniture, as a dark omen of the coming world conflict, explained Olivier Widmaier Picasso, grandson of Picasso, present at the conference press alongside his sister Diana.
It is part of the family collection ceded to the museum by the first daughter that Picasso had with Marie-Thérèse Walter.
The personal collection of the artist transmitted to his descendants includes six paintings, two statues, including one made by Picasso in 1945 (La Vénus du Gaz) and another, Polynesian, typical of anthropomorphic sculptures of the Marquesas Islands of the 19th century (tiki), which the artist kept like totems in his studio, as well as a sketchbook.
The oldest of the paintings in the collection is a classic portrait of Picasso's father, "Don Jose Ruiz", himself a painter, and dating from 1895. The most recent, cubist, "Tête d'Homme", was produced during summer 1971, in the last phase of Picasso's work.
