the following are drawings in PICASSO's 1922 sketchbooks from his family summer in Brittany. Years later, PICASSO would declare this resort town of Dinard deadly- but in his early life as husband to Olga & father to a young son, Paulo he was playing the family man. The family rental, Villa Beauregard, was done in provincial French pieces. PICASSO, following his usual tradition, began sketching the interiors, exterior, gardens, along with domestic family life. PICASSO had to take "pictorial" possession of any place he lived.
'Only by drawing pr painting the place could he make it his own. All part of his shamanism.' (John Richardson, House and Garden Sept.1986)
& as he saw it with a bit of rouge-
& You? how do you color Picasso?
& You? how do you color Picasso?
images from House and Garden Sept.1986)
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