Château de Boisgeloup is an 18th-century château near
Gisors in
Eure
Eure () is a department in Normandy in Northwestern France, named after the river Eure. Its prefecture is Évreux. In 2019, Eure had a population of 599,507.[Normandy
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, formerly owned by
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...
and now a private art gallery run by his grandson
Bernard Ruiz-Picasso
Bernard Ruiz-Picasso (born 3 September 1959) is a businessman and art collector. He is the grandson of Pablo Picasso and the son of Paul and Christine Ruiz-Picasso. He curates international exhibitions dedicated to Pablo Picasso.
Biography
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and gallerist
Almine Rech.
Picasso bought Château de Boisgeloup with his wife
Olga Khokhlova
Olga Picasso (born Olga Stepanovna Khokhlova; russian: Ольга Степановна Хохлова; 17 June 1891 – 11 February 1955) was a ballet dancer in the Russian ballet. She was also the first wife of Pablo Picasso, one of his ear ...
in June 1930. There he developed his art into a more abstract style and experimented in sculpture. He also produced there many of the prints from the ''
Vollard Suite
The ''Vollard Suite'' is a set of 100 etchings in the neoclassical style by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, produced from 1930-1937. Named after the art dealer who commissioned them, Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939), the suite is in a number of mu ...
'' (1930–1937).
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.
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''.
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Museo Picasso MalagaPicasso: a visit to his secret studio, Boisgeloup, in the company of Bernard PicassoPablo Picasso’s Former Studio in an 18th-Century French Château Will Host an Exhibition
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Chateau de Boisgeloup
Châteaux in Eure