It includes 32 paintings and 100 drawings, watercolours and graphic and sculptural works by Picasso, including five portraits of Angela herself. Together with his daughter Angela, he amassed an extraordinary collection which he and Angela donated to the town of Lucerne. The art dealer Siegfried Rosengart (1894-1985), who moved to Lucerne after the First World War, was a friend of many leading artists, including Matisse, Chagall, Klee and Picasso. Inside Picasso's birthplace - now an art foundation In 1952, he painted his famous mural on war and peace to decorate the chapel. Picasso also lived at nearby Vallauris, the seaside village where he learnt the art of decorative ceramics. Closed Mon admission €6 note that opening hours in 2018 vary as the museum is undergoing a refurbishment. This was Picasso at his happiest, and as he put it himself: “If you want to see the Picassos of Antibes, you must see them in Antibes.” Joie de Vivre, which hangs in the museum, perhaps best captures the mood, with its summery palette of light blues and yellows.Ī naked model dances to pan pipes – played by a faun and a centaur – on the beach while a fishing boat bobs on the horizon. The museum became the first dedicated to the artist, and while it offers only a snapshot of his work, it is a glimpse of a summer holiday infused with warmth, light and optimism. The results so pleased him that he donated all the work he had done here to the chateau, on condition that it remained on display. It was a time of frenzied creativity and he produced a new work almost every night – 23 paintings and 44 drawings in all. He and his lover Françoise Gilot stayed in the little village of Golfe-Juan and spent idyllic days on the beaches, while Picasso worked mainly at night in the high-walled Château Grimaldi. He used the chateau as a studio in the autumn of 1946. Here are a few highlights (note that some of his works will have been moved for the Tate Modern exhibition): Antibes, Franceįrom the terrace below the medieval stone tower of the former Grimaldi Palace, on the Côte d’Azur, you look out over the glittering waters of the bay to the distant grey bulk of Cap Ferrat – it’s an extraordinarily beautiful location for a museum, and here, inside the medieval chateau, the white-walled galleries are hung with some of Picasso’s most hedonistic and untroubled work. He produced an estimated 50,000 artworks during his long life, including 1,885 paintings, many of which are housed in Europe’s greatest galleries and museums. The Spaniard’s output was truly staggering. Where else, if not London, can one enjoy his art? In short, everywhere. ![]() A painting from the new exhibition at the Tate ModernĬredit: Christie's Images, London/Scala, Florence
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