When I was a child, my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope.’ Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
Quote Pablo Picasso
The most expensive places to live:
1. Bermuda 
2. Switzerland 
3. Cayman Islands 
4. Bahamas 
5. Iceland 
6. Singapore 
7. Barbados 
8. Norway 
9. Denmark 
10. Australia 
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12. USA 
18. Israel 
19. South Korea 
20. France 
21. Austria 
22. Finland 
24. Canada 
25. Netherlands 
26. Germany 
29. UK 
32. Italy 
33. Sweden 
34. UAE 
43. Japan 
54. Saudi Arabia 
57. Spain 
62. Chile 
71. Poland 
75. Mexico 
79. Venezuela 
90. Brazil 
93. China 
99. South Africa 
110. Russia 
115. Indonesia 
118. Argentina 
131. Turkey 
133. Bangladesh 
137. Nigeria 
138. India 
139. Egypt 
140. Pakistan 
Marc-Hely a magical spot and nicer than Nice
The mountain part of the Riviera is less busy and twice as beautiful as the beaches in France cannot be even compared to Maroubra or Coogee sand and colours of the seas…
Vallauris (1948-1955)
Between the years of 1948 to 1955, Pablo Picasso spent time in Vallauris, a town in the Cote d’Azur with a long history of ceramic art. It was here in Vallauris, where Picasso discovered the medium of clay, which provided him with a new way to express his creativity. He experimented and worked with clay using kitchen tools.
Pablo Picasso and his partner, Françoise Gilot together with their son Claude, moved into a small house in the town, La Galloise. A year later, they bought a decrepit former perfume factory called Le Fournas. He converted this building into an artist studio. Here in painted, sculpted and worked with ceramics.
Marc Chagall travelled the world his whole life long. Exile and exploration took him from the banks of the divna to the shores of the mediterranean, from the western wall in jerusalem to the ramparts of Saint-Paul de Vence.
Marc Chagall was born in Vitebsk, in Belarus in July, 7th 1887 into a traditional Jewish family. His father worked in a herring depot and his mother ran a modest grocery store.
In 1907, Marc Chagall moved to Saint- Petersburg, where he enrolled in several academies before working in the studio of Léon Bakst. In 1910 he made his first trip to Paris. Marc Chagall was granted French citizenship in 1937.
During WWII, he and his family went into exile in the United States.In 1948, Chagall returned to Paris before moving to the French Riviera in 1949.
In 1949, Chagall bought a house in Vence close to the Matisse chapel. At the time, the French Riviera was an incredible « art center » frequented by many artists such as Matisse, Picasso, Magnelli, Léger. In 1962, Chagall decorated one of the chapels of the Notre Dame de la Nativité cathedral. He made a colourful mosaic featuring Moses saved from the waters.
From the end of the 1950’s, he participated to the project of creation of the Maeght Foundation that opened in 1964 in Saint-Paul de Vence.
