[5] This exhibition coincided with one devoted to Andry-Farcy ending on November 24, 2019, celebrating the hundredth anniversary of his assumption of office as curator at the Musée de Grenoble.
During the war, Picasso chose to stay in France and devoted himself to three classic themes: still lifes, the female nude, and the portrait.
One of the first works is Chat saissant un oiseau (Cat seizing a bird) from April 22, 1939, illustrating the fear of the painter faced with the threat of a war in Europe with the capture of Prague by the Nazis.
In 1941, while Picasso and his companion Dora remained in a Paris subject to restrictions, he painted Jeune garçon à la langouste (Young boy with lobster), thus defying the Nazi occupier.
In 1942, still in his workshop in the Grands-Augustins, he produced a sculpture of a painted bronze head but also his paintings L'Aubade and Nature morte au crane de taureau (Still Life with the Skull of a Bull), a tribute to his friend Julio González who had recently died.