Grimaldi forum monaco picasso biography pdf

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The exhibition is divided into two thematic parts which include works. Wishing to escape from Paris for the summer with his family, Picasso also realized that the hills, the trees and the sea reminded him of his native Spain, and this identification with the region undoubtedly played an important role. Between and , Picasso made at least fifteen visits to the French Riviera, including a short stay in Monte-Carlo during the spring of when he and his wife, the ex-dancer Olga Khokhlova were invited by Serge Diaghilev to attend a new production by the Ballets Russes.

Until , the Picasso family stayed, for the most part, around Juan-les-Pins, in local rented villas. The types of work Picasso created during those vacations depended in large measure on the space available and the material he was able to take with him, in particular, during those first stays, when he traveled by train. This explains in part the large number of drawings that he did at that time, drawings that were often bigger than his canvases.

From the beginning of the s, Ezra and David Nahmad built up a collection inspired as much by aesthetics as by market values, in the tradition of the great collections of the 20th century. The choice of their acquisitions has been very deliberate, to the point of sometimes bringing together different variations around the same theme.

One of the features of this collection is that many aspects of the artist's work are included; in particular, the series focused on the artist's studio at La Californie in Cannes and on The Painter and his Model. Little by little, they began to realize that selling the paintings of the masters brought them less pleasure for they had become attached to the work.

Their desire to sell took over only when it was a question of buying an even more important work. From that, their vocation to collect and to enrich the Collection was born. Regarding the theme of variation: The theme of variation is fundamental to the organization of the exhibition. Certain groups of works, including Picasso's versions of Delacroix's Femmes d'Algers and a whole series devoted to The Painter and his Model, represent sequences of the artist's own variations on a particular theme.

These works are shown at the Grimaldi Forum. They were hard-working and lived in a traditional Jewish environment. However, after World War II, the political situation in Aleppo became difficult so they left for Beirut, where Ezra and David were born in and