{"id":1693,"date":"2009-06-17T08:53:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T15:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/06\/pablos-love-pad-goes-public\/"},"modified":"2009-06-17T08:53:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T15:53:02","slug":"pablos-love-pad-goes-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/17\/pablos-love-pad-goes-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Pablo’s Love Pad Goes Public"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Times South Africa<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Painter\u2019s Love palace unsealed<\/h1>\n

Hot spot<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

The French chateau where Picasso lived and now lies buried with his \u2018green-eyed beauty\u2019 has opened to the public, writes Matthew Campbell.<\/p>\n

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The dining room smells strongly of wood smoke. Drops of paint cover the floor upstairs. Pablo Picasso\u2019s spirit haunts the imposing fortress in whose grounds he is buried with Jacqueline, his last love.<\/p>\n

Vauvenargues chateau in southern France has opened to the public for the first time, offering a rare glimpse into the home of one of the greatest figures of 20th-century art.<\/p>\n

The red-shuttered chateau is where Picasso lived with his second wife from 1959 to 1961 and where he created some of the greatest work of his later years.<\/p>\n

Much to the excitement of Picasso fans, the house \u2014 abandoned by Jacqueline and Catherine, her daughter, to caretakers after the artist\u2019s death in 1973 \u2014 is just as they left it, giving it the uncanny air of a time capsule.<\/p>\n

In a sparsely decorated bedroom, a 1950s telephone sits on the bedside table. On the floor is a giant, Swiss cowbell.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach morning, Picasso, already in his late 70s when he moved into the chateau, would see if he still had the strength to lift it.\u201d<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at The Times SA<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The Times South Africa Painter\u2019s Love palace unsealed Hot spot The French chateau where Picasso lived and now lies buried with his \u2018green-eyed beauty\u2019 has opened to the public, writes Matthew Campbell. The dining room smells strongly of wood smoke. Drops of paint cover the floor upstairs. Pablo Picasso\u2019s spirit haunts the imposing fortress […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}