Among the many workshops that Picasso had, the beach may have been his main. Of course there was the Bateau-Lavoir, the rue La Boétie and Boisgeloup, the Grands-Augustins, Juan les Pins, Vallauris, Cannes, Vauvenargues, Mougins… So many places of creation located at the center of society. So many sacred bellies from which so many styles have emerged, with as many muses as godmothers. And then, on the sand, the hand was not working on painting or sculpting ...
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But how happy the Malaguene was at the seaside! He was having fun there, chatting with friends. Above all, he found his most Apollonian motives there. At the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon, in a rich itinerary designed around the theme of bathers by the director, Sylvie Ramond, and Émilie Bouvard, former curator at the Musée national Picasso in Paris (and now responsible for the collections of the Foundation Giacometti), water and sand, air and sun are omnipresent.
Everywhere the beach which absorbs in its ocher or its
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