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 dangling from his lips, shakes hands with Maurice Thorez as the artist's son Paulo stands between them. The French Communist Party leader was a guest at the unveiling of Picasso’s monumental mural, "The Fall of Icarus." This gathering, surrounded by onlookers, took place not in Paris, where the forty-panel work was destined for the UNESCO building, but in Vallauris on 29 March 1958.

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