Chateau that belonged to Picasso opened to the public
 The French chateau that once belonged to Pablo Picasso will for the first
time be opened to the public, 35 years after the artist’s death. The Spanish
artist is buried on the chateau Vauvenargues territory in the south of France. He
bought Vauvenargues in 1958.
For 6 months Picasso’s step-daughter Catherine Hutin, the daughter of his
last wife Jacqueline Rogue, will open the chateau to visitors, who will be
allowed to enter the place in several groups. This is a good chance to have a
look at the artist’s life and his burial mound, topped with his sculpture Femme
au vase (created in 1933).
Picasso and Jacqueline Rogue left the chateau in 1965 for another villa in
the outskirts of Mougins, near the Côte d’Azur. But despite this, the artist’s
will was to be buried at Vauvenargues. His studio, brushes, paints and
still-life arrangements were left untouched, furniture is also the same, and
there is even a mandolin in one of the rooms which you can see in some of
Picasso’s works.
The opening coincides with the exhibition “Picasso-Cézanne, le soleil en
face” which takes place at the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence from
2nd June to 27th September 2009.
28.02.2008 |
