The Villa La Vigie is situated at 30-37 Boulevard Edouard-Baudoin on the waterfront of Cap d'Antibes near Juan-les-Pins in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
[4] Gould's wife was the noted French socialite, Florence Lacaze who hosted numerous notable people at the house including Maurice Chevalier, Jean Cocteau, F. Scott Fitzgerald, André Gide, Mistinguett, Paul Morand and Pablo Picasso.
[5] Picasso also enjoyed visits from the actor Pierre Bertin and his wife, the pianist Marcelle Meyer, while at the villa.
[5] He was also visited by John Dos Passos, Archibald MacLeish, Donald Ogden Stewart and George Seldes.
[5] Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas declined an invitation from Picasso's wife Olga to join them at the villa.
[5] Gerald and Sara Murphy stayed at the nearby Hôtel du Cap in Antibes, as did F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
Picasso's biographer, John Richardson, described the summer of 1924 as "productive and innovative" and he had "sufficient space, privacy, and peace of mind to make a prodigious forward leap".