Château de Boisgeloup explained

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]

Further reading

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

External links

• • Museo Picasso Malaga
• Picasso: a visit to his secret studio, Boisgeloup, in the company of Bernard Picasso
• Pablo Picasso’s Former Studio in an 18th-Century French Château Will Host an Exhibition

Notes and References

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