[1][2][3] They link together to describe almost the entire ground floor of the Pablo Picasso's Villa La Californie in Cannes, Southern France.
These include all the notebooks, sketches, African masks, works in production (such as paintings, prints, ceramics, and sculpture), as well as gifts from friends, articles of clothing and even artworks by his own children.
In December 1954, Picasso began to paint a series of free variations on Delacroix's Les Femmes d'Alger.
The light-filled interiors, the views over the Mediterranean and the exotic garden evoked a feeling of spaciousness and ease which corresponded to Picasso's idea of the Orient.
The art historian and collector Douglas Cooper was perhaps the first to realise that the paintings done at La Californie marked a return to Picasso's peak form.