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...does it feel to have great modern art around the house? Jean and Huguette Ramié have their own answer. When the two young artists were about to be married in 1951, their friend and neighbor Pablo Picasso slipped into their modest apartment in Vallauris, north of Cannes, and by way of a wedding present proceeded to decorate the drab walls. His sketches were charming and nonabstract. In an odd corner he painted a thoroughly representational bloomer girl, to remind Jean of his bachelor days. In the bedroom he put a nude, and in the kitchen, still lifes of fish...
...Then the Ramiés' troubles started. Reporters and photographers came from all over the world to record their treasure. When their baby reached toddling and scribbling age, the walls attracted him powerfully. Huguette spent most of her time keeping little Francois from improving on the master's work. The Ramiés looked longingly at a nearby cottage, but their friends told them they would be insane to leave the most wonderfully decorated apartment in the world...
...Sears, 47, onetime professor of prosthetic dentistry in New York University, took his stance between the rami of a huge artificial jawbone. The over-size was necessary to illustrate his points clearly. These were...