Latest update: 06/10/2008 

Picasso and his masters
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The most awaited modern art exhibition has just opened at Paris's Grand Palais. More than 200 works by Picasso and artists he personally admired such as Manet, Goya or Velazquez, have come from 60 museum all over the world.

Titian, Velazquez, Goya, Zurbaran, Rembrandt, Poussin, Ingres, Manet, Cézanne, Van Gogh... They all inspired Picasso, and their works are shown side by side with is at the Grand Palais.

 

"Picasso and his masters" (Oct. 8, 2008 - Feb. 2, 2009) features 210 works ranging from the 16th century to 1971 and forms one of the largest collection of masterpieces by Picasso and classic Western painters ever put together.

 

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is, "among modern painters, the only who carried the whole of painting's history", said Anne Baldassari, who heads the Picasso Museum in Paris. She co-organised the current exhibition, which she considers "miraculous", with the Louvre's Marie-Laure Bernadac.

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