Summers with Picasso
(DVD) 

Documentary.

Bonus film: Guernica / directed by Alain Resnais and Robert Hessens. Features paintings, drawings, and sulcptures made by Picasso to bear witness to the atrocities of the Spanish civil war (approximately 14 min.).

On the French Riviera with Man Ray and Picasso: original music, Michel Portal; editing, Christine Marier.

Picasso and Sima, Antibes 1946: camera, Serge Vincent, Christian Tran; editing, François Pit.

On the French Riviera with Man Ray and Picasso: with the voices of Kester Lovelace, Sandy Bernard.

Picasso and Sima, Antibes 1946: with the participation of Françoise Gilot, Jean-Louis Andral.

Like many artists of the post-WWI era, Pablo Picasso fell under the spell of the French Riviera. The blue intensity of the Mediterranean, its rugged coasts, balmy weather, and sun-filled days inspired some of his most important artistic breakthroughs. Icarus Films is proud to present a pair of unique documentaries on two colorful periods of Picasso's Riviera life. François Lévy-Kuentz's On The French Riviera with Man Ray and Picasso details Picasso's summer in the village of Mougins in 1937, using footage shot by Man Ray of Picasso, his companion Dora Maar and their guests Ady Fidelin, Paul Éluard and his wife Nusch, writer Roland Penrose, and photographer Lee Miller. With Christian Tran's Picasso and Sima, Antibes 1946, we learn the story of Picasso's pivotal friendship with sculptor and photographer Michel Sima while living in the town of Antibes right after the War. At Picasso's request, Sima photographed Picasso's works-in-progress in the workshop he found for him at Grimaldi Palace. --,Container.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

DVD; NTSC; widescreen presentation; stereo.

For private home use only.

The first film: narrated in English; the second film: in French with English subtitles.