This is not to stop Anne Baldassari in his zeal

She fought for several years for the change in status of the Picasso Museum, it manages with the inventiveness of a business leader. The hotel Salé, which houses the work of the Cubist artist, won autonomy by becoming an Epic summer, and Anne Baldassari has swapped his title of Director of the Museum for the more flattering, President. It will now have more free rein and have revenues ticketing at his convenience, without going through the meeting of the national museums.

Doctor of Arts and social sciences of education, responsible for early 1980s commands of contemporary works for the delegation to the arts of the Ministry of Culture - seeking on this occasion Richard Serra, Jean-Michel Alberola, Jean-Pierre Raynaud...-, then Conservative from 1985 to 1990 at the national Museum of modern art of the Pompidou Centre, where she organized exhibitions such as "Art and Pub"., Anne Baldassari has a non-standard profile and explosive in the cold enough medium of national museums. This small piece of determined and stubborn woman, moving heaven and Earth for the Picasso Museum and she became a conservative in 1992, has of fads: research on modern art, it considers insufficient, access to the culture of physical and mental disabilities, innovation in all its forms, cultural, economic, multimedia... "I have no taboo", she explains. Specialist painter of painters of the 20th century, on which it is inexhaustible, it attaches to value his work by any means, including by its extensive publications. It is she who created this masterful exposure "Matisse-Picasso", exciting the crowd at the Grand Palais a few years ago. It also "Picasso and the masters", which climbed another attendance record and logistical feat. She still who designed the Picasso retrospective in Moscow and St. Petersburg this year.

A prolific worker

The bright eye behind his dulcet of eternal student, the tiny silhouette sandwiched in dark and male costumes, the President reigns over a 100 employees and is teeming with projects to find past attendance: up to one million visitors to are here, pressed in the heart of this particular hotel of the Marais district that she likes and where she resides over the years. The hotel Salé is work since 2008 to renovate rooms, to expand the space. This is not to stop Anne Baldassari in his zeal. On the contrary, it is an opportunity to conduct a large site of digitization and stocktaking of the works, and let the collection go to the conquest of the world with species hard and cash. 45 Million invested in the Museum Picasso for the site, about half will thus come from its own resources. Anne Baldassari will create an Endowment Fund, with the help of the collector Bernard Arnault, ready to mobilize its networks, and a US Foundation of the Picasso Museum across the Atlantic in the fall. That means, when the establishment will re-open in 2012, to promise all facets of the eclectic personality of the painter: "He was very engaged in the cultural life of his time and was interested in all the arts." The Museum must reflect this.

Corsican to the well tempered character, Anne Baldassari is a large family, where art has always been in good place, and is passionate about from childhood to the Renaissance, modern art and German expressionism. Impulsive and not necessarily diplomat said some, energetic and enthusiastic in the eyes of others, all recognize in it a prolific worker. As the painter model.