Picasso · Sub-room 2

Boisgeloup

1934 – 1949

The chateau-era atelier. Marie-Thérèse iconography, ceramic vessels, mid-century interior light. Picasso owned a real French chateau here from 1930 to 1955.

Boisgeloup was where Picasso held court in the 1930s — sculpture studios, carved stone, the long blonde-Marie-Thérèse afternoons. The 1949 Vallauris pottery years follow naturally — ceramic vessels everywhere.

1949

Femme assise

1949 Vallauris pottery years. Madoura kiln, Françoise Gilot, the Mediterranean turn.

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1949

Femme en bleu assise dans un fauteuil

1949 Vallauris. Spring afternoons at the Madoura pottery. Françoise reading on the chaise.

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