New masterpieces. La dation Maya Ruiz-Picasso

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 unique acquisition mode is key to the very identity of Musée Picasso, which was founded in 1979 specifically to house the donation made by Pablo Picasso under this system. The Maya Ruiz-Picasso donation, accepted by the French state in 2021 and made by the artist's daughter with Marie-Thérèse Walter, born in 1935, is fully aligned with the museum's founding history and governing ethos. Spanning several disciplines and covering a broad timespan, from 1895 to 1971, it represents a major addition to the nation's heritage and is also a unique opportunity for the museum to supplement its collection in a way that is perfectly in keeping with the corpus of works it was created to house.
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