Bardot Meets Picasso

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When Brigitte Bardot met Pablo Picasso in 1956, she was 21 and he was 74. Picasso had a long and successful career as an artist behind him, and Bardot had already made 17 films.

Picasso was best known as one of the pioneers of Cubist painting, but in his career he experimented with a variety of techniques and media.In 1948, he moved into a villa in the town of Vallauris on the French Riviera, where he explored the use of clay and ceramics, producing practical items and decorative pieces.

In 1956 Brigitte Bardot attended the Cannes Film Festival, just down the coast from Vallauris, and came to visit the artist. She had become a media sensation at the 1953 festival and her fame spread to the United States.