[PW] Re: First acquisiton of Picasso by the Louvre?

[Bye, Dan J]

Daphne is correct about the nature of the Louvre's collections.

http://www.louvre.fr/llv/musee/mission.jsp
"The cut-off point for the Louvre's collection is 1848".

I certainly don't see any Picassos in the Louvre's database:
http://cartelen.louvre.fr/

Dan 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On 
> Behalf Of Daphne Drewello
> Sent: 29 November 2006 22:40
> To: list at project-wombat.org; John Ptak
> Subject: [PW] Re: First acquisiton of Picasso by the Louvre?
> 
> John Ptak wrote
> 
> > Does anyone happen to know when the Louvre acquired its 
> first work by 
> > Picasso?
> 
>    Are there any Picassos in the Louvre? I thought their 
> collection only contained items through the first half of the 
> 19th century. More modern stuff is in the Musee d'Orsay, I 
> believe, and of course, Picasso has his own museum in Paris.
> When Picasso was given an exhibition at the Louvre in 1971, 
> it was the first time the Museum had ever had an exhibition 
> of the works of a living artist.  I don't know if that counts.
> 
>   I really don't know very much about art.   Obviously.
> 
> 
> Daphne Drewello
> Alfred Dickey Library
> Jamestown, ND 
> 
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