England
London
After Italy, a new ballet leads Picasso to England in 1919 where he makes the stage curtain for the Three-Cornered Hat
France
Bvd de Clichy
Picasso, undecided, wavers for a while between Barcelona, Madrid and Paris. When his close friend Casagemas commits suicide in Paris in 1901, Picasso moves into his studio where the Blue Period will soon be born. He is twenty years old.
Bateau-Lavoir
Is it Montmartre that makes Picasso decide to settle permanently in Paris? Aged 23, he moves into the famous Bateau-Lavoir where he finds a whole artistic community and a bohemian lifestyle. In this studio, freezing in winter and stifling in summer, Picasso will paint "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon". He leaves to spend two years at the studio Bd de Clichy but soon returns there in 1911.
Impasse Frochot
In 1909, a new studio Bld de Clichy makes life more pleasant than in the rudimentary installations of the Bateau-Lavoir. Fernande is delighted but this does not last. Picasso goes back to the Bateau-Lavoir in 1911 . . . without Fernande.
Rue de la Boétie
In 1918, having just married Olga, Picasso, aged 37, moves close to his dealer Rosenberg, rue de la Boétie, where he occupies two floors : a studio and a flat. He remains there until 1937. It is in the same street, but at number 44, that he will shelter his secret liaison with Marie-Thérèse in 1930.
Rue des Grands Augustins
In 1936, Picasso meets Dora Maar. A year later, she will find him a new studio in Paris, rue des Grands-Augustins. This is where Picasso paints Guernica.
Bvd Raspail
Leaving his two studios Bld de Clichy and in Montmartre, Picasso moves temporarily to Montparnasse with his new love, Eva. He is 31 years old.
Rue Scoelcher
A few months after moving to the Bld Raspail, Picasso moves to the nearby Rue Schoelcher. He spends less than three years there. Eva's death in 1915 casts a permanent gloom over the place.
Montrouge
Fleeing from the memory of Eva carried off by a fatal disease in 1915, Picasso goes further South of Paris and eventually lays down his brushes in a suburban house in Montrouge. He will live there in 1917 and 1918, before moving to the rue de la Boétie.
Antibes
As early as the 1910s, Picasso spends the summer in Southern France. Antibes is one of his destinations, from the Neo-classical bathers to the mythological bacchanalias of the 1950s. The most important studio is lodged in the Château Grimaldi which he invests in 1946.
Boisgeloup
Located North of Paris, Boisgeloup is a relatively big house where in 1930 he can set up a studio for sculpture which he has actively taken up again. Boisgeloup also shelters his liaison with Marie-Thérèse.
Cannes
As for Juan-Les-Pins, Antibes, Vallauris or Mougins, where he spends many summers from the 1920s, Picasso knows Cannes well before moving into the famous studio-house with a pseudo-Moorish architecture called La Villa Californie in 1955.
Céret
It is almost Spain that Picasso finds in this small French town so close to his roots. Between 1912 and 1913, Céret is the secretive place where he works with Braque on the development of Cubism and the emergence of the papiers collés and where he can love Eva away from inquisitive eyes..
Dinard
Faithful to the sea, Picasso spends several summers at Dinard in Brittany in 1922, 1928 and 1929. Paul and Olga go with him, and later and secretly Marie-thérèse.
Juan les Pins
Picasso discovers Juan-Les-Pins for the first time in 1920. He will return there throughout his life and especially after WWII when he moves to Southern France.
Mougins
Picasso spends amorous summers there with Dora Maar from 1936 to 1938, and returns to Mougins in 1961. His last home is also his last studio. Notre-Dame-de-Vie is hidden from view in the hills of Mougins, just like Jacqueline and Picasso who works more than ever
Royan
His heart wavers between Marie-Thérèse and Dora. . . Picasso divides his time between the two women staying in this town on the Atlantic coast at the beginning of WWII. He sets up his studio at the villa Les Voiliers.
Tremblay sur Mauldre
In 1936, after his separation from Olga, Picasso loses Boisgeloup. He then moves his studio for a few months, with Marie-Thérèse and Maya, to Le Tremblay sur Mauldre near Paris, in a house lent by Vollard
Vallauris
In 1948, Picasso and Françoise move into a small house in Vallauris which Picasso knows since 1936. Too small to house a studio, Picasso buys the Fournas studios in the same town but also works directly at the Madoura pottery factory.
Vauvenargues
Aged 77, Picasso buys a life-size Cézanne : the Montagne Sainte-Victoire can be seen from the windows of the Château de Vauvenargues in which he vainly attempts to live and work during three years. He leaves this overwhelming greatness as early as 1961.
Italy
Rome
Rome is one of the places Picasso visits during his trip to Italy with the Ballets Russes in 1917. He also visits Southern Italy - Herculanum, Pompeii - and the North, stopping in Florence and Milan. Rome is the only city where he will set up a studio, via Margutta.
Poland
Krakow
One of Picasso's numerous travels after the war and in the Fifties, as a militant for peace and freedoom. Paul Eluard and Aimé Césaire can also be seen.
Netherlands
Netherlands
Picasso always preferred spending the summer in the sun, by the sea. Yet in the summer of 1905, he goes further North to Holland to see his friend Schilperoort. He brings back landscapes with typical windmills, peopled by plump Dutch girls wearing head dresses.
Spain
La Coruna
When Picasso is 10 years old, his family travels by boat to settle in Galicia, in Northern Spain, where they will spend 4 years. The climate is rainy and the atmosphere very different from the South.
Gosol
For a few months in 1906, Picasso withdraws with Fernande to this isolated village in the Catalan mountains. Cubism will emerge from this period of solitary reflection
Horta de Ebro
Picasso takes two revitalizing breaks in the village of his friend Pallares. Aged 17, after Modernist Barcelona, he discovers the simplicity of Catalan country life. Later, when he is 29, his research on Cubism is revived by observing the architecture of the village's houses.
Barcelona
In this anarchist and modernist city, Picasso discovers new artistic horizons and many new friends. There, he moves into his first studio, calle de la Plata, followed by other studios while he divides his time between France and Spain at the turn of the century. His parents and sister will spend the rest of their life in this town
Madrid
Picasso does not stay long in Madrid: barely a year when he is 16. He is there, aged 20, when Casagemas commits suicide in Paris.
Malaga
Andalucia is Picasso's native region. He leaves aged 10 but will return there for vacations throughout his childhood.
