Created during Picasso’s years in Vallauris, the work reflects a period of remarkable vitality and contentment. Living there with Françoise Gilot and their children, Claude and Paloma, Picasso became deeply embedded in the local community, drawing around him a lively circle of artists and writers including Jean Cocteau, Paul Éluard and Jacques Prévert. Alongside this sociable and celebratory atmosphere – marked by festivals, music and bullfights – he remained politically engaged through the Peace Movement and the French Communist Party.
Artistically, the Vallauris years were exceptionally prolific. Picasso immersed himself in ceramics at the Madoura workshop, reimagining traditional techniques with characteristic invention, while also exploring sculpture with found materials and developing his linocut practice.

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