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...from France, where he has lived for nearly 70 of his 88 years. And he himself probably will not go back before Guernica. Thus, the French were somewhat aggrieved last week when it was announced that Picasso had donated some 900 of his early works to the city of Barcelona to be installed in the small but charming Picasso museum started by his friend Jaime Sabart...
Homesickness. They should not have been. For Picasso, Barcelona is not Franco's Spain-it is the place where he grew up. His family moved there when his father, an art teacher and curator, took a position at the School of Fine Arts. Picasso was then a precocious 13, and it was there, over the next few years, that he set up his first studio, received his first exhibition and won his first prize-an honorable mention for the painting Science and Charity, for which his father posed as a doctor. To this day, friends say, when Picasso suffers...
...knows just what the collection contains. But officials estimate that there must be about 260 oils, 600 drawings and 100 or so gouaches. There are sketches of his friends, the gulls circling over the seaport where his father once worked, the dance halls and bullfights that he saw in Barcelona...
Treasure Trove. Besides homesickness, Picasso seems to have been motivated by the fact that in Barcelona he met his lifelong friend and later secretary, Jaime Sabartés. Over the years, Picasso gave Sabartés a treasure trove of his works. In 1963. Sabartés donated the rich collection to the city of Barcelona, which provided a lovely old palacio to house it. Picasso's bequest was actually made a month ago, when he summoned a Barcelona notary public to his Riviera villa and dictated a document, declaring, "I, Pablo Picasso, in memory of my unforgettable friend...
When no existing furniture quite matched the modern grandeur of his Barcelona pavilion, he designed his own tables, stools and chairs in leather, steel and glass-which have since become classics in themselves. For Manhattan's Seagram Building, in its muted bronze and pink-glass majesty the country's most handsome office building, he had a mock-up made of the bronze mullions that hold the vertical windows in place. They are H-shaped in cross section, and Mies elaborately studied the dimensions of their outer edge for the shadow line it would cast on the enclosed windows...