New Masterpieces: Dation from Maya Ruiz-Picasso Musée national Picasso-Paris

From 16 April 2022 to 31 December 2022, a double exhibition will present the masterpieces of the Maya Ruiz-Picasso dation as well as digging deeper into the relationship between daughter and father.

This exhibition celebrates the addition of nine masterpieces to the French national collections – six paintings, two sculptures and a sketchbook – via the country's gifts-in-lieu scheme,... Show more

From 16 April 2022 to 31 December 2022, a double exhibition will present the masterpieces of the Maya Ruiz-Picasso dation as well as digging deeper into the relationship between daughter and father.

This exhibition celebrates the addition of nine masterpieces to the French national collections – six paintings, two sculptures and a sketchbook – via the country's gifts-in-lieu scheme, which was introduced on 31 December 1968, allowing inheritance tax to be paid in kind. This style of acquisition is key to the identity of the Musée Picasso, which was founded in 1979 specifically to house donations made by Pablo Picasso under this system.

Maya Ruiz-Picasso's latest dation spans several disciplines and covers a broad timespan, from 1895 to 1971, representing a major addition to the collection.

Organised chronologically and structured around these nine masterpieces, each room creates a dialogue for the new works which have been set alongside art from the museum's collection, as well as specially selected loan works.

The aim here is to take an in-depth look at certain pivotal moments in Picasso's oeuvre, exploring key aspects of his work such as his relation to tradition and to the portrait genre, and his use of writing as part of the creative process. Drawing on a rich array of paintings, sculptures and graphic works by Picasso, the show also offers new insights in the fields of non-Western, ancient and modern art.

The Musée Picasso-Paris collection, the world's largest collection of Picasso's works, is unique in presenting not just an unrivalled array of techniques covering almost the entirety of the artist's career, but above all because more than 80% of the works came directly from the artist's studios.