Curator Cécile Debray, who has directed the Picasso museum in Paris for three years, has seen her mandate renewed by the President of the Republic, according to a decree published in the Official Journal on Wednesday.
After directing the Parisian Orangerie museum, Cécile Debray succeeded Laurent Le Bon at the head of the Picasso museum in 2021.
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, with a room entirely dedicated to the painter's ex-partner, the Franco-American Françoise Gilot, died at age 101 in June 2023.
The museum archives contain around 200,000 items.
Picasso, whose career spanned nearly 80 years, kept many of his 2,000 paintings, more than 11,000 drawings and thousands of sculptures, ceramics and engravings in his studios throughout his life.
These works, a significant part of which entered the collection in 1979, form the heart of the museum inaugurated in 1985.
