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Picasso's Château Opens to Visitors This Summer

Published: June 10, 2009
PROVENCAL, France— The château in the south of France where Pablo Picasso is buried will open to the public this summer, 36 years after the artist’s death.

The Château de Vauvenargues, near the Provençal town of Aix-en-Provence, was bought by Picasso in 1958 because it is set in the foothills of Mont Sainte-Victoire, the mountain painted by Paul Cézanne numerous times. Picasso considered Cezanne his artistic father. Catherine Hutin, the daughter of Picasso’s second wife, Jacqueline Roque, from her earlier marriage to engineer André Hutin, owns the château now and is allowing public access to it for four months this summer to coincide with a Picasso and Cezanne exhibition at the Musée Granet

Read more at the Telegraph.

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