Help Defing a True Friend Picasso's new friends learned about his past life by chance, such as Georges Tapau, the editor of the communist newspaper Le Patriote de Nice, which the artist painted full-length illustrations every year during Carnival. "In the corridor of Villa California, there was a full and signed bottle without a label, which bothered me strangely," wrote Tapo in his book about the master. Since then Picasso moved to Cannes. Every time I went to visit him, I wondered what was on the vessel and if Pablo had forgotten about it. By 1958 I dared to ask him what was the genie in that bottle. "It's not Gandhi, it's Fred's father," said Picasso. The artist told the journalist that the winter of 1907-1908 was particularly cold, the Seine even covered with ice. It was especially difficult for him at that time, since after "Evron's hands" his new aesthetic experiments were perceived negatively, the paintings almost did not sell, there was nothing to heat the studio, and he could not even afford to buy canvases and a brush, and ate as a simple wandering artist. Picasso then paid Stein a desperate visit in the hope that he would agree to pay him in advance for a painting that he or his sister could one day buy. "Why do you keep drawing horrors that no one wants? Stein asked, handing him a 20-franc coin. In his book, Tapu described how Picasso explained to him how he felt at that moment: I didn't come there to beg for alms, and I even thought about throwing money in Stein's face along with a chair and a block. But I had no paint, no fire in the hearth, no bread on the table, so I took 20 francs and left. It was a long time ago, but I'll never forget it." Picasso shared with Tapu The continuation of the story: one morning that winter someone knocked on the door.

Help Defing a True Friend Picasso's new friends learned about his past life by chance, such as Georges Tapau, the editor of the communist newspaper Le Patriote de Nice, which the artist painted full-length illustrations every year during Carnival. "In the corridor of Villa California, there was a full and signed bottle without a label, which bothered me strangely," wrote Tapo in his book about the master. Since then Picasso moved to Cannes. Every time I went to visit him, I wondered what was on the vessel and if Pablo had forgotten about it. By 1958 I dared to ask him what was the genie in that bottle. "It's not Gandhi, it's Fred's father," said Picasso. The artist told the journalist that the winter of 1907-1908 was particularly cold, the Seine even covered with ice. It was especially difficult for him at that time, since after "Evron's hands" his new aesthetic experiments were perceived negatively, the paintings almost did not sell, there was nothing to heat the studio, and he could not even afford to buy canvases and a brush, and ate as a simple wandering artist. Picasso then paid Stein a desperate visit in the hope that he would agree to pay him in advance for a painting that he or his sister could one day buy. "Why do you keep drawing horrors that no one wants? Stein asked, handing him a 20-franc coin. In his book, Tapu described how Picasso explained to him how he felt at that moment: I didn't come there to beg for alms, and I even thought about throwing money in Stein's face along with a chair and a block. But I had no paint, no fire in the hearth, no bread on the table, so I took 20 francs and left. It was a long time ago, but I'll never forget it." Picasso shared with Tapu The continuation of the story: one morning that winter someone knocked on the door.