Jacqueline Roche and Pablo Picasso
Jacqueline and Pablo Picasso is the name chosen for a museum that “will bring together more than 2,000 works , including more than 1,000 paintings, becoming the largest collection of works by Picasso in the world” Official sources who wish to remain anonymous explain to Traveler.es.
Paintings, drawings, ceramics, sculptures, photos... will make up a collection in which the most outstanding the portraits that Picasso painted of Jacqueline, his last wife.
“Another of the interesting aspects of this museum will be the variety of periods represented , even though the understood between 1952 and 1973, stage in which Jacqueline and Pablo Picasso lived together until his death, it will be the most important in terms of works exhibited, ”indicate the sources, who have not specified the opening date of the new Aix-en-Provence museum.
College des Prêcheurs
They have confirmed that the Jacqueline and Pablo Picasso center will be located in what was until 2016 the College des Prêcheurs , that is, in one of the historical buildings which are located in the center of the city.
Total, “will occupy 4,600 square meters on three levels, of which 1,500 will be exhibition space: 1,000 square meters for permanent samples and 500 for temporary ones”, they point out.
The museum will also have a documentation center on Picasso, pottery and engraving workshops, a 200-seat auditorium, a cafeteria and a restaurant.
The sources consulted expect an influx of about 500,000 visitors a year, that is, about 1,500 per day on average.