Erection date: 1983
In this building Pablo Picasso painted the backdrop for Diaghilev's production of Massine's ballet Le Tricorne. 1919
Picasso worked here for 2 months in the studio of the Diaghilev's set-painters, Vladimir and Elizabeth Polunin.
WC2, Floral Street, 51
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Picasso
Born Moscow. Ballet dancer and choreographer. Principle choreographer of Di...
Born Spain. Didn't like travelling, lived most of his live in France and died...
Unveiled by Simon Callow who has never worked on a Leigh movie though he and Steadman worked together on the 2003 film Hans Christian And...
The inscription is a quote from William Morris's 1890 "News from Nowhere", in which the narrator, William Guest, the previous day having ...
The plaques are on the southern end wall of the colonnade. From their position and style, including the rope borders, these two plaques w...
The plaque is actually around the corner in Rossmore Road, on a house with a front door numbered 1a. We think the house has been "turned...
The plaque does not appear on the latest Google Street View (March 2019) so would have been erected after then.
