Villa La Californie

Villa La Californie
La California
Coordinates 43°33′03″N 7°02′32″E / 43.550776°N 7.042102°E / 43.550776; 7.042102
View of the Bay of Cannes since Le Suquet. Background les hauteurs of the La Californie neighhborhood from which the villa takes its name.

Villa La Californie, also known as Villa Fénelon, Villa Picasso, and now known as Pavillon de Flore, is a villa in Cannes, France. The house overlooks the bay of Cannes from Le Suquet. In the background are the hills of the district of California, which gave its name to the villa. It is located 22 Coste Belle Avenue.

The villa was built in 1920 and was the residence of artist Pablo Picasso from 1955 to 1961.

History

Eugene Tripet (1816-1896), consul of France in Moscow moved to Cannes in 1848 with his wife Alexandra Feodorovna Skrypitzine (1818-1895), a wealthy Russian heiress friend of Prosper Mérimée. He built the "Villa Alexandra" on the heights of the city overlooking the Cape of the Croisette facing the Lérins Islands. The villa was quickly surrounded by the residences of many representatives of the Russian aristocracy who were immigrants in Cannes, and the area is nicknamed "Little Russia". In 1903, his son, General Vicomte de Salignac Fenelon acquired the northern part of the garden of the villa and ordered a winter residence project from the architect Champagne H. Piquart. In 1920, the project was commissioned and the house was named "Villa Fenelon".

Pablo Picasso bought the house in 1955 and moved there with Jacqueline Roque. The photographer Lucien Clergue is the witness of the life of the painter in "Californie". This is the workshop he painted in 1958, the Bay of Cannes where he represents the seascape strangled by the urban environment. In 1961, with the construction of a new building concealing the sea view, Picasso decided to look for another place. He left the house in Cannes and moved to Mougins, where he spent his last years. During the inventory of the estate of the painter, many previously unknown works were found in the house and are the subject of Pablo Picasso dating 1979 behind the national museum which bears his name. His granddaughter, Marina Picasso inherited "Californie" and finished the restoration work in 1987.[1] She renamed the villas as "Pavillon de Flore".

In 2015, Marina Picasso put the house up for sale.[2]

Cultural

The house is a private property registered in 2001 in the general inventory of cultural heritage in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur under the Census seaside heritage Cannes.

References

  1. ↑ "Villa Fénelon, also called Villa de la Californie ou Villa Picasso, then Pavillon de Flore". Fragments Cannes. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Picasso’s granddaughter selling his Cannes villa due to 'painful' childhood memories". The Telegraph. May 17, 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
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