Archive of the oral memory of Picasso
In 2018, creation of an archive of oral memory on Picasso was launched, conceived as an international tool for research and knowledge, which makes it possible to recover individual memories centred on testimonial experience and to establish new narratives on Picasso. The project shares thoughts and resources with other entities linked to Picasso -Musée national Picasso-Paris (MnPP) and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS)- and aims to generate a shared archive of oral memory about Picasso.
Dedicated to journalism and a Barcelona chronicler, Lluís Permanyer met Picasso personally and in 1964 he spreaded the news of the donation of the Las Meninas series to the city of Barcelona.
Claude Ruiz Picasso (Boulogne-Billancourt, France, 1947), artist, film director and son of Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot. In this interview, Claude Picasso offers his vision on the process of moving Guernica to Spain since his father's death in 1973: the conflicting relationship with Roland Dumas, the artist's executor; the family's claim on the moral right to the work and its installation in the museum.
Son of the painter, engraver and sculptor Javier Vilató, grandson of the painter Élie Lascaux and great-grandson of Picasso, he is a painter, engraver, sculptor, ceramist, lithographer and filmmaker.
Roland Dumas (Limoges, France, 1922), lawyer, politician and executor of Pablo Picasso. Dumas was responsible for drafting the artist's will regarding Guernica, ensuring that both the painting and its preparatory work arrived to Spain once the public liberties typical of democratic States were restored, regardless of their form of government.
International photographer recognized for war photography. She met Picasso in 1956 and maintained a relationship until the artist's death. He embodied this bond in photographs that bring us closer to Picasso's private world and artistic processes.
Brigitte Léal (France, 1955), general curator of French heritage, specialist in cubism and friend of Brigitte Baer and David Leclerc, architect by profession and nephew of Brigitte Baer talk about Baer's work.
Art historian, professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and curator of museums at Barcelona City Council, she was director of the Museu Picasso in Barcelona between 1966 and 1983.
