Picasso's last home - from Malaga to Mougins
A giant head of Picasso. (A. M. Saanders)

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Picasso's last home - from Malaga to Mougins

Ninety years ago Pablo Picasso discovered the village and 60 years ago permanently settled in the French Riviera that quickly became his retreat from the world, a place to spend the final years of his life

Alekk M. Saanders
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