War and Peace ("La Guerre et la Paix") drawing on the vault of the Temple of Peace (Temple de la Paix, or Chapelle de la paix). Pablo Picasso had added a semicircular panel with four interlocked figures holding a dove of peace, suggesting the unity of mankind. Vallauris 1961.

Visitors observe Pablo Picasso's monumental mural, "War and Peace," covering the barrel-vaulted ceiling of the Temple of Peace in Vallauris, 1961. The vast, modernist composition contrasts darker, aggressive figures of war on one side with lighter imagery of peace on the other. At the chapel’s far end, dramatic lighting illuminates Picasso's semicircular panel of four interlocked figures holding a dove of peace. The onlookers, cast in partial silhouette against the stone floor, lend a sense of the artwork's grand scale.

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"La guerre et la paix", 1958. Zervos.XVIII.253, Zervos.XVIII.254, Zervos.XVIII.5

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