The Picasso Museum in Paris has opened a large digital archive with tens of thousands of photographs and artworks by the artist Pablo Picasso. Among other things, 19,000 photographs are being shown to the public for the first time. Over the coming year, 200,000 texts by the artist will also be uploaded digitally, as well as a large part of the museum's interviews, essays, and sketches.
The digital archive is opening just before the inauguration of a study centre about Picasso, which will be located near the museum in central Paris.
Picasso was born in 1881 in Spain and lived almost his entire life in France, where he died in 1973. His family donated his archive to the French state in 1992.
