May 25, first opened its doors to visitors Vovenarg French chateau where he lived and worked great Pablo Picasso

May 25, first opened its doors to visitors Vovenarg French chateau where he lived and worked great Pablo Picasso (Pablo Picasso).

Picasso - author of the most expensive in the world works - it has acquired Chateau along with 2.5 thousand acres of land in 1958 for his second wife Jacqueline Rock (Jacqueline Roque). Prior to this, the wife lived in Cannes, but it started in large numbers to build the new multi, port view at sea. In addition, Picasso began to pester tourists coveted personally acquainted with the famous painter. Therefore Vovenarg village, with a population of only a few hundred people, which is located next to the castle, was to Pablo and Jacqueline ideal refuge. They lived in Vovenarge from 1959 to 1961. During this period, Picasso created a lot of fine portraits of his wife. One of them, called «the woman in the chair», was sold in 2006 at an auction in New York for 6.7 million dollars. By this time also include scenery overlooking the village Vovenarg and a series of canvases on the theme sezannovskogo «Men of the tube». But the most famous painting of this period, perhaps a variation on the theme «A Picnic» Édouard Manet (Edouard Manet).

When Picasso was 80 years old, he decided to move closer to doctors, and so in 1961 the wife moved into a small town Muzhen. There, the artist died in 1973, but bequeathed to bury themselves in Vovenarge. After his death the castle and remained almost untouched - the same as what was in his lifetime. At a table by the bed in the master bedroom is a telephone 1950, and placed on the floor a huge Swiss bell. «Every morning Picasso, who was already more than seventy, check, whether he has enough strength to lift this bell», - told the Pepita Dupont (Pepita Dupont), a friend of Jacqueline Rock, who wrote the book «The truth about Jacqueline and Pablo Picasso».

On the wall in the bathroom Jacqueline still can see a fawn, playing the flute, which the artist wrote to his wife. And for terracotta floor slabs in the studio is still a drop of dried ink - Picasso hated when someone is around. Also in the workshop, there is some easels, and on the table - with the banks and even the paint brush used by the artist. Through the enormous windows, he admired at Mount Saint-Victoire, which is not just a source of inspiration for Paul Cézanne (Paul Cezanne), born in Aix-en-Provence.

Jacqueline Rock wants to open in Vovenarge Foundation Picasso, but the villagers, fearing an excessive influx of tourists, have rejected this idea: in a referendum in 1985, 85 percent of them voted against the initiative. A year later, the great artist's wife shot in their beds. Her daughter, Katherine decided to open a lock for the visitors just now. However, taking into account the tendency of locals to retreat, the Chateau will be put in only small groups of tourists - more than 18 people per visit. They will be bring in Vovenarg bus, provided by the museum in Aix-en-Provence, until September. And then all the secrets of newly spryachutsya from the eyes of the gates of the castle.

Material prepared Onuchin Catherine, AI

Source: timesonline.co.uk , artinvestment.ru