Claude Picasso
By becoming the Judicial Administrator of the Picasso Indivision, Claude Picasso is commited to defend the work of Pablo Picasso.
I. The engagement of a life
Born in 1947, Claude Ruiz-Picasso is the son of Pablo Picasso and Françoise Gilot. After studying in France and Great Britain, he lived in New York from 1967 to 1974. He attended photographer Richard Avedon and studied Actor's studies while working as a photojournalist. He participated in the production of commercials and the staging of plays. At the death of his father, Claude Picasso returned to France to take care of the Succession Picasso. He joined the team of Master Maurice Rheims who inventories and estimates more than 40,000 pieces. He participated in the edition of the catalog raisonné of the work engraved with Brigitte Baer and put all his documentation at the disposal of Werner Spies and Christine Piot for the realization of a catalog of sculptures.
II. Inventory of a work
For the payment of inheritance taxes, Claude Picasso helped to set up a dation that led to the creation of the Picasso Museum in Paris. He then met the President of the Republic Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. It is Dominique Bozo, the first director of the museum, who selects the works for the purpose of the dation and before the partition between the heirs. Claude Picasso puts at the service of this new museum his knowledge of the work and the entourage of the artist. It facilitates exchanges between the curators, the architect Roland Simounet, the Ministry of Culture and the various members of the Picasso Succession.
III. The defense of copyright
At the same time, Claude Picasso was involved in the protection of copyright by becoming the president of the Spadem (society for the collection and distribution of copyright for visual artists) from 1976 to 1989. Thanks to his Impulse and the notoriety of the work of Picasso, the protection of the authors is developed through negotiations carried out within the representative bodies and the creation of new collecting societies in Africa and the countries of the East. He thus signed the first agreements of East-West reciprocity between authors' societies in Moscow. This work is echoed by the Ministry of Culture during the work to implement Law No. 85-660, known as the Lang Act of 3 July 1985 on copyright and artists' rights, Interpreters, producers of phonograms and videograms and audiovisual communication undertakings.
In 1989 Claude Picasso was appointed Judicial Administrator of Picasso Indivision and left the presidency of the Spadem but continued to monitor and protect Picasso's works by initiating numerous infringement proceedings in France and abroad, Where he repeatedly testified to assert the rights of authors in the face of Anglo-Saxon law that was not very protective for artists.
IV. Picasso Administration
In 1995, Claude Picasso created Picasso Administration to optimize the protection and control of the use of the name, image and work of Pablo Picasso in the fields of literary and artistic property (reproduction rights, Representation, droit de suite) but also in the field of trademark law and rights derived from personality. Picasso Administration is a company of 8 employees who authorizes, refuses, controls, collects the rights attached to the works of Picasso in the name and on behalf of the Indivision.
Picasso administration has more than 18 years of experience in copyright management. It is a unique and original structure that allows a strong and independent voice to be heard. Thus, when Picasso incorporated into the French law the European directive on the resale right (a percentage of the sale price of a work must be given back to the author or their rightful claimants), All its weight to make amend an decree of application that wanted to exclude the deceased artists from the benefit of the droit de suite in the art galleries.
Claude Picasso very closely follows the evolution of copyright in general, and in particular in the immaterial economies where it is sometimes attacked or even denied and always difficult to apply. He does not hesitate to go to court to enforce the works of his father.
Claude Picasso is a Knight of the Legion of Honor and of the Order of Arts and Letters, he sits on the Board of Directors of the National Museum of Rete Sofia in Madrid, the National Picasso Museum in Paris and the Picasso Museum in Barcelona . He also continues to organize exhibitions to increase Picasso's creativity and to publish articles in reference works. He has never ceased to work as a photographer, designer and director.