Château de Boisgeloup

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

Further reading
  • Picasso, Marina; Louis Valentin (2001). Picasso, My Grandfather. Riverhead Books. ISBN 9781573221917.
  • Richardson, John (2007). A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932. Knopf. ISBN 9780307266651.
  • Sobik, Helge (2009). Picasso's Homes. Feymedia. ISBN 978-3-941459-02-1.

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