[lbo-talk] Picasso in Paris: A Suspect, Never a Citizen

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Wed May 28 08:10:09 PDT 2003


***** Picasso flunked French citizenship Alan Riding/NYT NYT Wednesday, May 28, 2003

PARIS After Pablo Picasso's death in 1973, France honored him with the museum that carries his name in Paris.

Yet during his first four decades as a French resident, the Spanish-born artist was frequently viewed with suspicion by the French police and intelligence services. When he sought French nationality in 1940, he was turned down on the ground that he was an anarchist with communist tendencies....

<http://www.iht.com/articles/97724.htm> ***** -- Yoshie

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