Picasso Museum Barcelona

This guide to the Picasso Museum in Barcelona traces its start in 1963, opened not under Picasso's name but as the Sabartés Collection, honoring the Catalan poet Jaume Sabartés who had been the artist's closest friend and secretary since they met near here in 1899. It follows Sabartés' death in 1968, and how Picasso — then eighty-six and in exile in France — responded by sending a major series of paintings across the ocean as tribute. The museum's seven-century-old walls now hold works not yet seventy years old.