Who would you pick to design a mural for the walls of your garden terrace? For Douglas Cooper, a twentieth-century British art historian and collector, and the owner of the glorious Château de Castille in the south of France, his close friend Pablo Picasso was the obvious choice. Picasso was a frequent visitor to the castle, and one year requested that Cooper designate a wall for him to decorate. He conjured up a series of five drawings, inspired by Jacques-Louis David’s The Rape of the Sabine Women and Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, which were then etched into the wall of the château’s eastern veranda by Norwegian painter and sculptor, Carl Nesjar.
