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Carrer Montcada 15-19, Ciutat Vella, 08003
City: BARCELONA .
General Information Tel: 00-34-933196310
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- The Barcelona Picasso Museum clearly confirms
the ties that unite Pablo Picasso with the city of Barcelona. He did not only
finish a solid academic training here, but the artistic effervescence that he
experienced in the city was the starting point that opened up for him the path
to modernity.
- The museum has the most important and exhaustive
collections of the works of Pablo Picasso's youth and education, in particular
the ones he did between 1895 and 1904, the years in which the young artist lived
in our city.
- The solid conventional academic training that
the young Picasso received between 1891 and 1897 -under his father's tutelage-
in the fine arts schools in La Coruņa, Barcelona and Madrid, is well-represented
by a range of work that shows the artist's mastery of his craft, as also is his
foray into official competitions, which led to key work during the time of his
training, such as First Communion (Barcelona, 1896) and Science and Charity (Barcelona,
1897).
- His links to Catalan Modernisme and, in particular,
to the artists and intellectuals that used to meet at the mythical tavern, Els
Quatre Gats, are reflected in a series of works, chiefly in the portraits that
he made of many regular customers. This proximity to the Catalan avant-garde gave
rise to his first trips to Paris, which led to work of a marked Post-Impressionist
character and to a strident use of colour, such as in Nana and Margot (Paris,
1901).
- The Picasso Museum occupies five medieval palaces:
Aguilar, Barķ de Castellet, Meca, Casa Mauri, and Palau Finestres, which have
been restored various times throughout the centuries. The restoration carried
out in the eighteenth century by the Baron of Castellet in the palace that bears
his name stands out. This was done in one of the halls on the main floor. Medieval
elements still remain in the Aguilar and Finestres palaces, such as the painted
beams in one of the rooms on the ground floor..............................click
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in the financial district near to Sants & Montjuic Exhibition Centers. You
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for its fish and seafood restaurants near to the Olympic Village, El Born and
the district nearest the beach Poble Nou. Click on the search box below to find
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Barcelona, Spain 
