photo by Michel Sima courtesy Palazzo GrassiVENICE - Palazzo GrassiPicasso - La Joie de Vivre 1945-1948 exhibition. The exhibition takes it's name from the painting, Joie de Vivre, seen here in the background. Bathed in light and radiating around the figure of a woman-flower, the painting is the most emblematic work of the Antibes Picassos. The exhibition begins with fifty photographs taken by Michel Sima, of Picasso at work in the Chateau Grimaldi, now the Musee Picasso in Antibes. With the Musee d'Antibes closed for works, Jean-Louis Andral, it's chief curator, has shifted virtually it's entire collection to Palazzo Grassi (until March 11th, 2007). The post war years 1945-1948 were happy years in the life and work for Picasso. His liaison with Francoise Gilot, who inspired and influenced his work and with whom he had two children Claude and Paloma. His return, after the war, to the Cote d'Azur and the discovery and mastery of pottery, which Picasso tried by chance when visiting Vallauris. All these factors contribute to an extraordinary exhibition. Allow yourselves plenty of time, there is a lot of interesting works, photographs and pottery to look at.
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