Antibes
Pablo Picasso and his young new love, Francoise Gilot, left dreary postwar Paris in summer 1946 for the light and warmth of the South of France. After meeting the curator of Antibes archaeology museum on the beach, he took up his offer of use of workspace there, in the 14th-century Château Grimaldi, spectacularly positioned at the top of the old town. Picasso’s studio, the former guard’s room with windows looking out to sea on three sides, is now hung with works he created there, including La Joie de Vivre, emblematic of his time in Antibes, and the inspiration for Graham Sutherland’s Homage to Picasso. Sutherland is one of seven British artists, influenced by Picasso, who feature in the Tate show. Picasso returned