Diana Picasso Opens Sofia Modern Arts Exhibition

Diana Picasso, grand-daughter of the artist Pablo Picasso, opened a new art gallery in downtown Sofia. Photo by wordpress.org

Diana, the grand-daughter of world-famous artist Pablo Picasso, arrived in Bulgaria’s capital, Sofia, for the opening of the Museum Gallery of Modern Art.

Diana Picasso also presented on Tuesday evening her book “Art can only be Erotic”, a study of the sensuality in here grandfather’s works.

During her speech, she confessed that she herself preferred dancing and making music to painting. She joked that every descendant of a great artist feels frustrated in that same area of art.

The three-day premiere of the new gallery, which is run by Denitsa Atanassova, features masterpieces by renowned artists such as Salvador Dali, Henri Matisse, Juan Miro, Andy Warhol and Marc Chagall.

Works by the Bulgarian artists Christo and Huben Cherkelov are also on exhibition.

The gallery’s creators say they wish to develop Bulgaria's taste for art and the collector's spirit by offering art works of the highest museum quality.

The gallery will attract art experts from Christie's, Sotheby's, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge and the Sorbonne Universities.

It will also offer advice on purchasing art objects, along with private displays and exhibits for collectors only.

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