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From the day he dropped in at the Vallauris fair last summer, Picasso had lost all interest in the huge paintings he was doing for the Castle Grimaldi museum at Antibes (TIME, Oct. 6). He had settled down at Vallauris with his one-year-old son and the baby's beautiful young mother, Franchise Gillot, and turned out well over a thousand pieces of pottery...
...17th Century castle had become, last week, a 20th Century shrine. Castle Grimaldi, in the Riviera town of Antibes, had long been used as a museum, but hardly anyone bothered now to look at its ancient coins, copies of Michelangelo and terra-cotta statuettes. For Pablo Picasso had hung his latest paintings in its tiled galleries. The regular habitues were bustled aside by a throng of up-to-the-minute pilgrims, who had come to see for themselves the newest chapter in the protean history of Picasso...
...Pablo Picasso," she burbled in next day's column, "is too well known to dwell upon. Our friendship during 27 years has always been full of surprises. ... I have always thought Picasso's blue period to be his best until yesterday, when I went to the Grimaldi Museum. ... I had seen quite a bit of Picasso in Paris this winter. When I asked him to come to America and told him about the money he would make there, he shrugged his expressive Latin shoulders, saying, 'Elsa, I hate the sea and I hate money, and I have...
Pablo Picasso was a changed man once again. A change of scene had done it. He had left Paris last summer to roam the warm Cote d'Azur. At Antibes the 17th Century Castle Grimaldi, which had been turned into a museum, caught his eye. The curator happened to be a friend of his and told 65-year-old Picasso to make himself at home...
...Serrano Suñer, sped across southern France to the Italian Riviera town of Bordighera, where II Duce was waiting to shake hands. While an Italian armored train, its guns turned on the Mediterranean, chuffed nervously up & down the Riviera between San Remo and Grimaldi, II Duce, El Caudillo and the man Spaniards derisively call the Big Shot Brother-in-Law (El Cuñadissimo) sat down to talk...