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Pierre Daix

Born May 24, 1922 · Ivry-sur-Seine, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France

Died November 2, 2014 · aged 92

Pierre Georges Daix (24 May 1922 – 2 November 2014) was a French journalist, writer and art historian. He was a friend and biographer of Pablo Picasso. As a young man, Daix was an ardent Stalinist. He joined the French Communist Party at the age of 17 in 1939 when the Communist Party was banned for supporting the German-Soviet pact. In July 1940, he created a student club, the Centre laïque des a…

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13 Days in the Life of Pablo Picasso · 1999

13 Days in the Life of Pablo Picasso

1999

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A French documentary charting the life of the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso through the events of 13 significant days of his life, including his marriage to Olga Kokhlova, the birth of his daughter, the bombing of Guernica and the death of Stalin. Archive footage of Picasso, his lover Françoise Gilot, writer Jean Cocteau, photographer Brassat and critic Pierre Daix is accompanied by new interviews with Picasso's daughter Maya and son Claude.

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13 Days in the Life of Pablo Picasso · 1999

13 Days in the Life of Pablo Picasso

1999

MovieDocumentary

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