Picasso

1961 :
- March 2: Picasso marries Jacqueline Roque at Vallauris and they move to Notre-dame-de-Vie à Mougins.
- Picasso’s eightieth birthday is celebrated throughout the world. 
- Publication of D-H Kahnweiler’s “Mes Galeries et mes Peintres” 
- Photographer Duncan publishes “Picasso’s Picasso”.
- Works steadily on sheet-metal sculptures with Lionel Prejger who makes them in his factory. 
 

1962 :
- Publication of Jean Cocteau’s monograph « Picasso from 1916 to 1961 »
- Jacqueline’s face predominates is all his paintings, engravings and sculptures.
- Publication de la monographie de Juan Cocteau. 

1963 :
- Spring: Opening of the Picasso Museum in Barcelona. 
- Picasso continues work on engraving with the Crommelynck brothers.
- Deaths of Braque and Cocteau. 

1964 :
- Publication of Françoise Gilot’s book “Life with Picasso” (Published in French in 1965).
- Brassaï publishes “Conversations avec Picasso”
- Major retrospectives in Canada and Japan. 

1965 :
- Concrete sculpture version by Carl Nesjar of Manet’s “Luncheon on the Grass” placed at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. 

1966 :
- Many festivities for his 85th birthday: Paris organizes a major retrospective of his painted and especially sculpted works at the Grand and Petit Palais, which is a public triumph. 

1967 :
- Turns down the Legion of Honor and is evicted from his studio rue des Grands Augustins.
- A gigantic metal sculpture “Head of a Woman” is installed in Chicago. 

1968 :
- Death of friend and secretary Sabartès. In memory, Picasso donates to the Picasso Museum in Barcelona the series “Las Maninas” and a portrait of his close friend and secretary dating from the Bleu Period. Series of the “347” engravings. 
- Installation of the monumental bust of Sylvette at New York University. 
- Publication of the first volume of G.Bloch’s “L’oeuvre grave de Picasso” and of the second volume of B.Geiser’s “Picasso. Peintre graveur”.

1969:  -Publication of “El entierro des Conde de Orgaz” with a preface by Alberti.
             -The Vollard Suite is shown in Paris, then Hamburg, Nagoya and Torondo. 
         
1970 :
- Yvonne Zervos dies January 20, soon followed by her husband Christian Zervos on September 12. 
- Picasso donates to the Picasso Museum in Barcelona many of his early works.
- Thousands of visitors discover Picasso’s latest works at the Palais des Papes in Avignon. The subjects are characteristic of the period: musketeers, matadors, family, maternities, and embraces. 
- The Bateau-Lavoir is destroyed by fire. 
 

1971 :
- Picasso gives to the New York MoMA his first metal construction of 1912 “Guitar”
- Supreme honor: 8 of Picasso’s paintings are exhibited in the Grande Galerie in the Louvre. 
- Paris makes him Citizen of Honour. 

1973 :
- Picasso, aged 92, dies in his house of Notre-Dame-de-Vie and is buried in the Chateau de Vauvenargues.