Curator Cécile Debray renewed at the head of the Picasso Museum

Cécile Debray is beginning a second three-year mandate at the head of this institution which has several thousand works by Picasso, many from the Spanish painter’s private collection.

Curator Cécile Debray, who has directed the Picasso Museum in Paris for three years, saw his mandate renewed by the President of the Republic, according to a decree published in the Official Journal on Wednesday 27 November 2024.

After directing the Parisian Orangerie museum, Cécile Debray succeeded Laurent Le in 2021. Good at the head of the Picasso museum. The institution, which recently underwent a facelift, houses the most important public collection of the master’s works.

Blue, pink periods, cubism, surrealism, collages, sculptures, ceramics : the museum’s permanent collection brings together 400 works in 22 rooms and on three floors of a private mansion. The museum’s archives number around 200 000 pieces and one of the rooms in the museum is entirely dedicated to the painter’s ex-partner, the Franco-American Françoise Gilot, who died at 101 years in June 2023.

Picasso, whose career spanned nearly eighty years, kept in his workshops throughout his life a large part of his 2 000 paintings, more than 11 000 drawings and thousands of sculptures, ceramics and engravings. These works, a significant part of which entered the collection in 1979, form the heart of the museum inaugurated in 1985.