At the end of the war, Pablo Picasso, 67, returned to the Mediterranean.
Year 1948: he decides to leave Paris to settle in Vallauris, after having acquired the villa La Galloise where he will live until his departure for Cannes, seven years later.
The small pottery locality - Vallis Aurea from its Latin name, “the golden valley” evoking an abundance of mimosas - will be reborn with the arrival of the great master.
With intense joy and always dazzling creativity, he embarked on the art of ceramics at the Madoura workshops, run by Huguette and Jean Ramié, the eldest son of Georges who founded the company with Suzanne, both ceramists.
Jean joined the team in 1951. Huguette, his future wife, had lived with the Ramié for years, and worked regularly with the workshop teams.
Knowing each other since their youth, they married that year, with Françoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso as witnesses.
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