Three Museums for an exhibition in Paris: "Picasso and masters"
Thursday 09 October 2008
Under the title "Picasso and masters", the Grand Palais, the Louvre and Orsay Museum are, from October 8 and for four months, more than two hundred masterpieces: on the one hand, Titian, Manet, Goya, Rembrandt and Velazquez, on the other, takeovers and changes that these masters have inspired the Spanish artist.
It took three years of negotiations to get loans from these famous works from sixty museums and private collections. Not easy, indeed, to obtain museums and collectors that they are stripping for several months of some of their masterpieces. Plus they are famous, their owners less willing to separate them. The budget for the operation, particularly for insurance and transportation, is also history: 4.3 million.
Hours later, the organizers have innovated five night up to 22 hours per week instead of a usual and during school holidays, open every day from 9 am to 23 pm, a first in the history of french museums.