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In the summer of 1946, Picasso went to live in the south of France where his contact with the Mediterranean stimulated a new dimension in the artist's work. His canvases from this time gave life to mythological beings and pagan scenes. The main work of this period, The Joy of Living, an unselfconscious and carefree painting, highlights the artist's mood of renewal and his faith in life. The pagan spirit of this era, a legacy from Poussin's The Bacchanalia, painted in 1944, comes forth in a series of pictures of mostly pastoral scenes: fauns, centaurs and goats inhabit the world of this new and exuberant stage in the life and work of the artist.
Through literally hundreds of graphs and different techniques, paintings, drawings, ceramics and sculptures, Picasso created various different anthems to life. Most of these works belong to the collections in the Musée Picasso at Antibes -in the Grimaldi castle in the town, which was inaugurated as a Picasso museum in 1949, three years after Picasso set up his workshop there- and can be seen at our museum in the summer of 2006, while the French museum is temporarily closed. The exhibition will contain about 100 works and will be first shown at the
Museo Picasso de Málaga (13.03.2006 - 11.06.2006).