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Culture panel mulls Picasso studio's future

A FRENCH historical preservation panel met today to ponder the fate of artist Pablo Picasso’s Paris studio.

A legal group has owned the 17th-century manor containing the studio since before Picasso worked there and now wants to redevelop it — possibly as a luxury hotel.

Picasso worked in the Left Bank studio in the Hotel de Savoie for 19 years, and it is where he painted his famed anti-war opus “Guernica” in 1937. 

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