‘You take pictures, I paint’: Picasso friend’s photos given to Swiss museum

One of David Douglas Duncan’s photos of Pablo Picasso in his La Californie home in Cannes in July 1957. Photograph: David Douglas Duncan/Succession Picasso 2022

One hundred photographs chronicling the private world of Pablo Picasso up to and after his death in 1973 at the age of 91 have been donated to the Musée de l’Élysée in Switzerland.

The pictures are a sample of 25,000 taken of the artist by David Douglas Duncan, an American war photographer who first met Picasso in Cannes in 1956.