# Salle-dossier: André Malraux and Pablo Picasso – the Imaginary Museum

A focus display at the Musée national Picasso-Paris, in the Marais, as part of Paris Art Week 2026. It looks at André Malraux's encounter with Picasso's personal collection at Notre-Dame-de-Vie, which came after the artist's death in 1973 at the invitation of Jacqueline Roque.

- Type: Museum
- When: on view October 6, 2026 – February 7, 2027
- Where: Musée national Picasso-Paris, 5 rue de Thorigny, 75003 Paris, Le Marais
- Artists: Pablo Picasso
- Part of: [Paris Art Week 2026](https://artweekguide.com/weeks/paris-2026)
- Event's own page: https://www.museepicassoparis.fr/fr/agenda/salle-dossier-andre-malraux-et-pablo-picasso-le-musee-imaginaire/
- On Art Week Guide: https://artweekguide.com/events/salle-dossier-andre-malraux-and-pablo-picasso-the-imaginary-museum

## From the organiser

Focus display on André Malraux's encounter with Picasso's personal collection at Notre-Dame-de-Vie after the artist's death in 1973, at the invitation of Jacqueline Roque.

## Also on Tuesday 6 October

- **Until Nov 14** · [Five Views – La photographie japonaise émergente](https://artweekguide.com/events/five-views-la-photographie-japonaise-emergente) — Museum at Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, Invalides / Eiffel Tower. An exhibition at the Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris presenting five emerging Japanese photographers, each treating a theme as a "world in miniature": memory of the 2011 disaster, family life around the dining table, social structures, the body and performance, and image reproduction. It forms part of the bicentenary of photography.
- **Until Oct 24** · [Group exhibition: Schwitters, Vantongerloo, Tal-Coat, Asker, Laget, Murphy, Joseph](https://artweekguide.com/events/group-exhibition-schwitters-vantongerloo-tal-coat-asker-laget-murphy-joseph) — Show at Galerie Bernard Bouche, Le Marais. A group exhibition at Galerie Bernard Bouche in Le Marais, part of Paris Art Week 2026. It brings together works by seven artists: Kurt Schwitters, Georges Vantongerloo, Pierre Tal-Coat, Curt Asker, Denis Laget, John Murphy and Peter Joseph.
- **Until Feb 7, 2027** · [Kurt Schwitters: Le chaos-monde 1918–1948](https://artweekguide.com/events/kurt-schwitters-le-chaos-monde-1918-1948) — Museum at Musée national Picasso-Paris, Le Marais. A retrospective of Kurt Schwitters at the Musée national Picasso-Paris, the first in France since 1994. More than 300 works and documents range from paintings, sculptures and assemblages to collages, notebooks, photographs and books, covering Merz, Dada and constructivism, with parallels drawn to Picasso's use of everyday materials.
- **Until Nov 29** · [Rémi Marcel – Carte blanche, Prix Rubis Mécénat (Beaux-Arts de Paris hors les murs)](https://artweekguide.com/events/remi-marcel-carte-blanche-prix-rubis-mecenat-beaux-arts-de-paris-hors-les-murs) — Museum at Église Saint-Eustache, Les Halles. An installation by Rémi Marcel, winner of the 2026 Prix Rubis Mécénat for Beaux-Arts de Paris graduates, shown inside Saint-Eustache church in Les Halles. The work responds to the church's architecture and its link to the history of the city's food markets. Curated by Oulimata Gueye. Free.