Pablo Picasso, Paulo Picasso, Maurice Thorez. Unveiling of mural "The Fall of Icarus" ("La chute d'Icare") for the conference hall of UNESCO building in Paris. The mural is made up of forty wooden panels. Initially titled "The Forces of Life and the Spirit Triumphing over Evil", the composition was renamed in 1958 by George Salles, who preferred the current title, "The Fall of Icarus" ("La chute d'Icare"). Vallauris, 29 March 1958. - Photo by Edward Quinn

Pablo Picasso, Paulo Picasso, Maurice Thorez. Unveiling of mural "The Fall of Icarus" ("La chute d'Icare") for the conference hall of UNESCO building in Paris. The mural is made up of forty wooden panels. Initially titled "The Forces of Life and the Spirit Triumphing over Evil", the composition was renamed in 1958 by George Salles, who preferred the current title, "The Fall of Icarus" ("La chute d'Icare"). Vallauris, 29 March 1958.

Pablo Picasso, a cigarette between his lips, shakes hands with a smiling Maurice Thorez, who is dressed in a heavy overcoat and fedora. To the left, the artist’s son, Paulo Picasso, looks on intently. This meeting took place in Vallauris on 29 March 1958, during the unveiling of Picasso's monumental mural, "The Fall of Icarus," which was composed of forty wooden panels for the UNESCO building in Paris.


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