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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...energy, usually fired by some new love, the once gregarious Picasso gradually became more than ever a recluse. He sustained many old feuds and started new ones with fellow artists, critics and dealers, but welcomed the obsequities of a faithful coterie. In 1958 he purchased a medieval chateau near Aix-en-Provence called Vauvenargues. "I've bought Cézanne's view!" he said. He spent most of his final years, however, at Notre-Dame-de-Vie, a hilltop villa at Mougins on the Riviera, named after a chapel that once stood on the site. He worked until...