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Picasso : the museum reborn (streaming, Academic Video oNline) More than 300 paintings, 1000 drawings, 100 sculptures given to the French State as inheritance rights. Housed in the beautiful Salé Hotel in the heart of the Marais in Paris, Picasso Museum has closed its doors in 2010 to undertake major modernisation and refurbishment works aimed at multiplying the exhibition surfaces by three. For more than a year, this film will follow in the footsteps of Anne Baldassari, Head of the Museum and among worldwide's experts of Picasso' work, when she monitors the works' progress of the new Museum that will reflect the new vision of the artist's works of art.
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Sunday morning. Love and art : Picasso's women (streaming, Academic Video Online) This segment is about Marie Thérèse Walter, Picasso's most loved mistress.
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Modernism Matisse, Picasso, and more 20th century painters (streaming, Academic Video oNline) This documentary features the Hermitage Museum.
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Picasso and dance. The story of marriage (streaming, Academic Video Online) The Story of a Marriage", traces the story of Picasso’s involvement with designs for ballet.
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Picasso and dance. Le tricorne = The three cornered hat (streaming, Academic Video Online) Between 1917 and 1962, Picasso was involved in creating the designs for nine ballets in collaboration with such artists as Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Léonide Massine and Vaslav Nijinsky. "Le Train Bleu" dates from 1924 and "Le Tricorne" from 1919.
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Picasso and dance. Le train bleu = The blue train (streaming, Academic Video Online) Between 1917 and 1962, Picasso was involved in creating the designs for nine ballets in collaboration with such artists as Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Léonide Massine and Vaslav Nijinsky. "Le Train Bleu" dates from 1924 and "Le Tricorne" from 1919.
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Encylopaedia Britannica editor Kathleen Kuiper discusses Picasso's painting "the old guitarist". (streaming, Academic Video Online) BritanniCast video of Kathleen Kuiper discussing the "eureka!" moment while standing in front of Pablo Picasso's painting "The Old Guitarist" at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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The colour of money (streaming, Academic Video Online) Art is big business. Interviews with distinguished critics, collectors and artists reveals how art is perceived in the modern world, how it is valued and promoted, and why artists are more important than their work. This episode of Relative Values explores the way art is valued.
