A Few of the Houses of Pablo Picasso
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1. Villa Galloise in Vallauris
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2. La Californie
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3. Chateau de Vauvenargues
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1. Villa Galloise in Vallauris
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Photo Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com
Photo Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com
Photo Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com
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2. La Californie
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Photo Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com
Photo Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com
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3. Chateau de Vauvenargues
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Photo Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com
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***Notre-Dame-de-Vie
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Photo Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com his and Jacqueline's burial place in front of the Chateau de Vauvenargues
Love the Chateau de Vauvenargues! That plaster Louis XIV concoction "a la provencal" is heaven.
ReplyDeleteYour great post reminds me of a room in my head....maybe you can help find it again?
It was a house in either southern Italy or France, and there was Picasso mosaic on the entry hall floor. Two Emilio Terry plaster rock tables topped with a pair of giant clam shells with gilt interiors. This is all I can remember, sounds great, no? I believe the pictures were in an old HG book from the 60s or 70s...I saw the pictures in the 70s.
Maybe I dreamed it, Im suprised no one ever blogs about it...
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ReplyDeleteWOWWWWWW THAT SOUNDS AMAZING!!!! I have never seen it but will keep my eyes peeled next time I have the opportunity to cull H&G archives somewhere.
ReplyDeleteThe Chateau and La Californie are my favorites! I am glad you liked the pictures!
Hi Topsy, I think I know just the one, I was watching this just the other day.
ReplyDeleteFrom the excellent 3 part documentary called 'Picasso - Magic, Sex and Death' by John Richardson, Picasso's authoritative biographer and directed by Waldemar Januszczak:
"Château de Clavary, formerly owned by the American Russell Greeley who lived there with his boyfriend, the Marquis de de Gouy d’Arcy who was a man of enormous taste and finesse. They entertained on a lavish scale and almost everyone who was of note from the haute-boheme, the high bohemia of the 20s came here. Russell Greeley comissioned Picasso to do this around 1924, this beautiful mosaic. picasso was obviously inspires by the mosaics he had seen in Pompeii a few years earlier. It looks so simple, just black and white, intricate design, but the more you look at it, the more subtle and intricate you realise it is. Basically what it is, is four profiles, but the four profiles are sort of blended together and melded and there are variations on them. Some are masked and some don't seem to be masked. And it's the most extraordinarily perplexing puzzle. And the more you look at it, the more perplexed you become."
I've put up a screenshot of it from part two here:
http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/5069/chteaudeclavarypicassom.jpg
And a few years back, it seems, you could have bought the place:
http://www.residencesimmobilier.com/the-magazine-1-a-chateau-at-auribeau-sur-siagne-178.html
You may also be thinking of John Richardson's old home, the Château de Castille, where he lived with Douglas Cooper and where they had Picasso over visiting many times. Screenshot from part 1 posted here:
http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/1899/chteaudecastille.jpg
Is that it?
Somewhere in my mind is another place, more art deco, all black and white, with maybe the same mosaic. Ring any bells?
And for Adam, thanks a million for all the work on these pictures, they're fantastic. If you have any more I'd love to see them!
PS, you can buy the Picasso documentary straight from the maker here: zczfilms.com/
ReplyDeleteThey do good art stuff, mostly for the BBC so maybe you can also find them on the BBC's iPlayer, and are very well worth a look. The Michelangelo Code was on Discovery and might get rotated every so often.
Yes, that's it, Russell Greeley's house!!
ReplyDeleteThis post is really incredible, one of the most helpful I have ever read, indeed. Marie-Therese Mit Strohhut
ReplyDeleteTopsy, Russell is my great, great uncle. The images you were describing may have been in a VANITY FAIR magazine article, entitled "The Merchant Prince". Peter Wilson owned the Chateau de Clavary and the article was about his position at Sotheby's auction House and putting it on the map with antiquities brought from Europe. If you are interested in more about this era there is an exhibition catalogue entitled "Impressions of the Riviera" by Kenneth Wayne. The exhibition was at the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine in June-October 1998. Many of the photographs in the cataloge were from Russell's personal photo albums spanning 1924-1944. I just ordered the disc John Richardson did. The mosaic floor is remarkable. I had the good fortune of going to the Chateau in 1997 and was able to see and touch the mosaic marble floor Picasso created. I wish there had been journals accompanying the photo albums but there was a 'Livre d'Or'(guest book) with dates that painters, writers, musicians, poets visited Russell and Francois. There were numerous other works of art, sculptures, wall murals, in the many buildings and garden of the estate, as well.
ReplyDeleteA biographical time capsule of this era is "Laughing Torso" by Nina Hamnet. Great first hand account of life as an artist in France in the 20's, 30's. Everyone is in her book and she discreetly uses initials instead of people's names but it's not too challenging to figure out who's who!
ReplyDeleteCORRECTION: The Magazine was not Vanity Fair but the following, featuring Photographs of Chateau de Clavary:
ReplyDeleteConnoisseur, v222, no.n961, 1992 Feb, p54
The merchant prince. (Peter Wilson, former chairman of Sotheby's)
Also Titled
The merchant prince.
Appears In
Connoisseur, v222, no.n961, 1992 Feb, p54(11) (ISSN: 0010-6275)
Author
Blow, Simon
Published
Hearst Magazines, a Division of the Hearst Corporation, 1992 Feb