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PABLO RUIZ PICASSO We also spent summers in Sitges, Cataluna, a seaside resort 20
minutes from Barcelona. Paloma, Picasso’s daughter, owned a
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, bar there and she often reminisced about her Father, Picasso.
ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life El 4 Gats, the famous restaurant where Dali, Picasso and many
in France. Pablo Picasso, in full Pablo Diego José Francisco de other artists frequented throughout the modernist period was
Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano María Remedios de also one of our stomping grounds during the summer months
la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso, also called before 1901, Pablo when we were there. When living in France and Spain, you are
Ruiz by Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, surrounded by the history and the culture of the country and
printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest it is important to them to preserve their history, the artists
and most-influential artists of the 20th century and the creator that have influenced the people and the historical happenings
(with George Braque) of Cubism. going on since the beginning of time. Picasso is there, and we
“My first encounter with meeting an individual who actually are all influenced by his work and just being there where he
had weekly cordial conversations with Picasso at the Cannes worked, where he found inspiration, where he created some
market in the South of France, (before he moved on to Antibes) of his masterpieces is and has always been an incentive and
who was one of the owners of one of our apartments in motivation to my creativity and inventiveness. We have crossed
Cannes. Our daughter Tala Nicole was born there in 1979 and paths many times where Picasso lived and exhibited and in the
our children did attend school there over a six year period. I early 70’s I painted many works for one of Dali’s agents while
had many studios in Cannes – inspiration is in the air, it is the living in Sitges, (Barcelona) Spain.”
allure of another era, the Cote D’Azur is a magical part of the “Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which
world for artists and visitors alike. we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success”.
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