The last residence of the painter Pablo Picassolocated in Mougins, on the French Riviera, will be transformed into a center for until international, as revealed by its current owner to coincide with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of his death.
The project will require an investment of about 114 million euros to reconvert the property, currently baptized Castle of Life, but known as farmhouse Our Lady of Life at the time when the author of Guernica lived there.
The information was confirmed to public radio France 3 by its current owner, New Zealand businessman Rayo Withanage, who intends to turn the house into an international center dedicated to creation in which institutions and artists from all over the world can collaborate.
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“We invite the world’s most iconic artists and creative institutions to see the world as Picasso saw it, to work in his studio and to consider the influence of his work”said Withanage, according to that medium, without specifying further details of the project for the moment.
Picasso bought the Mougins property, located very close to Cannes, in the 1960s and lived there for the last years of his life with his wife Jacqueline Roque, until his death on April 8, 1973.
The house has an attached chapel and has a dimension of 800 square meters.
Source: EFE
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