The Studio of La California, 1956 

      In 1955 Picasso moved into a new home, the villa La Californie in Cannes.  He turned the vast living room into a studio, thus transforming an overwrought, baroque setting into a place for painting.  La Californie became a veritable storeroom into which were jumbled all the objects Picasso loved: paintings, sculpture and furniture.  Picasso painted some fifteen canvases based on this studio, which he called his ‘interior landscape’ In the center of his painting, 

The Studio of La California, 1956

       The Studio of La Californie, 1956, a blank canvas is posed on an easel.  To the right is a sketchy portrait of Jacqueline in Turkish dress.  To the left, a small lozenge-shaped sculpture, Female Head, and a Moroccan dish.  Picasso used the cut-out forms of the window borders as a decorative motif to give rhythm to his composition.

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