Left: Pablo Picasso in his studio in Paris, France, c. 1950. Photo: Sanford Roth / Photo Researchers History / Getty Images. Right: Henri Matisse in his living room at the Villa le Rêve in Vence ...

The artist spent the summer of 1921 working in a makeshift studio in the town south of Paris, ... Pablo Picasso, at age 39, rented a villa for three months in Fontainebleau, France.

Although born in Spain, Picasso spent most of his life living in France. He moved to Paris at the turn of the 20th century and opened an art studio.

“When he was not in his studio, Picasso would host art dealers from Paris, and friends such as the artists Georges Braque, Élie Lascaux and Giacometti. And when Olga was in Paris, his mistress ...

In 2012, she and the Picasso biographer John Richardson curated a well-attended show, “Picasso and Françoise Gilot: Paris-Vallauris, 1943-1953,” at the Gagosian Gallery in Manhattan ...

This ancient studio technique, which Pablo mastered from childhood, would go on to form the basis of the Cubist revolution. Image Picasso’s “Baigneuses (Projet pour un monument)” (1928).