Art: At the Village Fair

Last week's most important art show was held not in a museum or gallery but at a county fair. In the French Riviera village of Vallauris, prize examples of the town's two industries, perfume and pottery, were on exhibition, and among the pottery makers, between Pernin and Picault in the catalogue, stood the name of a newcomer—Pablo Picasso.

Picasso himself stayed away from the fair's opening—he spent the day turning out more pots and vases in a friend's tiny factory—but his worshipers flocked from far away to see what the master was up to now. Vallauris' Communist mayor sized up the well-heeled...