Pablo Picasso turned interior decorator when he bought the remote and austere Chateau de Vauvenargues in southern France in 1959. The bathroom mural of a faun, with eyes discreetly closed, was intended to provide “music” for bathers. When this photograph was taken Picasso was head down in the tub, engaged, he said, in a “corrida” with a scorpion. The illustration comes from “Viva Picasso,” a centennial collection of pictures compiled by David Douglas Duncan to mark the 100th anniversary of Picasso’s birth in 1881. A brief text supports more than 150 photographs, many of them in colour (Viking Press, New York, 1981, $35).
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Press, 5 December 1981, Page 16
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103Pablo Picasso turned interior decorator when he bought the remote and austere Chateau de Vauvenargues in southern France in 1959. The bathroom mural of a faun, with eyes discreetly closed, was intended to provide “music” for bathers. When this photograph was taken Picasso was head down in the tub, engaged, he said, in a “corrida” with a scorpion. The illustration comes from “Viva Picasso,” a centennial collection of pictures compiled by David Douglas Duncan to mark the 100th anniversary of Picasso’s birth in 1881. A brief text supports more than 150 photographs, many of them in colour (Viking Press, New York, 1981, $35). Press, 5 December 1981, Page 16
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