France pushes boat out to mark 50th anniversary of Picasso death

Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso at his home and studio in Mougins, south of France, in 1971. © RALPH GATTI / AFP

Fifty years after the death of Pablo Picasso in the south of France, appetite for the Spanish master seems inexhaustible.

Picasso's ceramics, Picasso's sculptures, Picasso and feminism, Picasso's use of white, celebrity photographs of Picasso ... the list of exhibitions marking the half-century since the artist's death on 8 April 1973 runs on and on.