EXCEPTIONNAL ! This is the French-language catalogue for the exhibition Picasso et les maîtres, presented at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais until 2 February 2009. Pablo Picasso was trained in the strict rules of academic painting at a very early age, first by his father, José Ruiz-Blasco, a teacher at the fine art school in Málaga and director of the Malaga Museum, and then as a student (1893-1899) at the fine arts school of La Corùna, at La Lonja (Barcelona), and then at the San Fernando Academy (Madrid). Drawings from the antique, statuary and architectonics, copies of
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