La Pausa

Chanel bought the five-acre plot on which La Pausa was built for 1.8 million French francs in February 1929. The plot had formerly been part of the hunting grounds of the ruling family of Monaco, the Grimaldis, and contained wild olive and orange groves. The villa was built less than a year later. It is not clear whether Chanel or her lover, Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster financed the building and furnishing of La Pausa. La Pausa was built by architect Robert Streitz, who sought to build 'the ideal Mediterranean villa'. If Chanel was unable to make the trip, local craftsmen would be sent to Paris to meet her. The poet Pierre Reverdy stayed at La Pausa for long periods during the 1930s, and the poet Paul Iribe, Chanel's lover, collapsed and died while playing tennis with Chanel at La Pausa in 1935. Streitz hid in La Pausa's cellars, from which he transmitted covert messages. Jewish refugees were also able to use La Pausa, using its gardens as a staging post in their escape from France to the Italian border. In 2007 Chanel released a perfume inspired by La Pausa, 28 La Pausa, as part of their "Les Exclusifs" collection. It was created by Chanel's perfumer Jacques Polge. ==Emery and Wendy Reves==

Chanel sold La Pausa in 1953 to the Hungarian émigré publisher Emery Reves. Reves bought La Pausa from the proceeds of the foreign-language rights to the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's book on the Second World War. Churchill subsequently became a guest of Reves and Reve's wife, Wendy Russell Reves, at La Pausa, often staying for weeks at a time. Guests hosted by the Reves with Churchill included Noël Coward, Somerset Maugham and Edward Molyneux. While at the house Churchill wrote and edited part of his History of the English Speaking Peoples. Churchill's visits to La Pausa were curtailed in 1960 after Emery Reves declined to host him, apparently because of a perceived snub by Churchill and Wendy's mental health. Following Emery Reves's death in 1981, the Dallas Museum of Art in the United States approached Wendy Reves knowing that there was a possibility that her art collection at La Pausa might be given to a museum. The villa's central courtyard and patio were reconstructed at the museum along with the villa's dining room, library, salon, bedroom, and hall, ==21st century==

Wendy Reves continued to occupy the house until her death in 2007. ==Works from the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection==

File:Cezanne Still Life with Apples a Bottle and a Milk Pot.jpg|Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Apples, a Bottle and a Milk Pot, 1900–06 File:Cezanne Still Life with Carafe Milk Can Bowl and Orange DMA.jpg|Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Carafe, Milk Can, Bowl, and Orange, 1879–80 File:Gustave Courbet - Portrait of Jongkind.jpg|Gustave Courbet, Portrait of Jongkind File:Courbet Portrait of Regis Courbet DMA.jpg|Gustave Courbet, ''Portrait of Regis Courbet, the Artist's Father'', 1848–1849 File:Courbet Still Life with Apples Pear and Pomegranates DMA.jpg|Gustave Courbet, Still Life with Apples, Pear, and Pomegranates, 1871 or 1872 File:Daumier Head of Pasquin DMA.jpg|Honoré Daumier, Head of Pasquin, 1862–1863 File:Degas Aria after the Ballet 1879.jpg|Edgar Degas, Aria After the Ballet, 1879 File:Degas Group of Dancers DMA.jpg|Edgar Degas, Group of Dancers c.1895-c.1897 File:Degas The Bathers DMA.jpg|Edgar Degas, The Bathers, c.1890-c.1895 File:Fantin-Latour Portrait of Manet.jpg|Henri Fantin-Latour, Portrait of Manet, 1867 File:Frame with mirror DMA Reves Collection.jpg|Frame with mirror File:Frames France DMA Reves Collection.jpg|18th-century French mirror File:Gauguin Portrait of a man DMA.jpg|Paul Gauguin, Portrait of a man, File:Le Pont Neuf - Claude Monet.jpg|Claude Monet, Le Pont Neuf, 1871 File:Lise Sewing - 1866.jpg|Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Lise Sewing, 1866 File:Manet Le Bouchon DMA.jpg|Édouard Manet, Le Bouchon, 1878 File:Monticelli - Still Life with Sardines and Sea-Urchins.JPG|Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, Still Life with Sardines and Sea-Urchins, 1880–1882 File:Morisot Port of Nice DMA.jpg|Berthe Morisot, The Port of Nice, Winter 1881/1882 File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - La Mare aux canards.jpg|Pierre-Auguste Renoir, La Mare aux canards, 1873 File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - La Seine à Chatou (1874).jpg|Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Seine at Chatou, 1874 File:Pissarro Landscape at Eragny.jpg|Camille Pissarro, Landscape at Eragny, 1890 File:Pissarro Place du Theatre Francais Fog Effect DMA.jpg|Camille Pissarro, Place du Theatre Francais: Fog Effect, 1890 File:Pissarro Road to Versailles Louveciennes Morning Frost DMA.jpg|Camille Pissarro, The Road to Versailles, Louveciennes: Morning Frost, 1871 File:Pissarro Rue de l Hermitage Pontoise DMA.jpg|Camille Pissarro, ''La Rue de l'Hermitage, Pontoise'', 1873–1875 File:Pissarro Self portrait DMA 1985-R-44 with frame.jpg|Camille Pissarro, Self-portrait, 1897–1898 (In frame) File:Redon Flowers in a black vase DMA.jpg|Odilon Redon, Flowers in a Black Vase, c.1909-1910 File:Redon The Port of Morgat DMA.jpg|Odilon Redon, The Port of Morgat, 1882 File:Renoir In the Studio Georges Riviere and Marguerite Legrand DMA.jpg|Pierre-Auguste Renoir, In the Studio (Georges Riviere and Marguerite Legrand), 1876–1877 File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Lise in a White Shawl - 1985.R.58 - Dallas Museum of Art.jpg|Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Lise in a White Shawl, 1871–1872 File:Renoir The Bather DMA.jpg|Pierre-Auguste Renoir, The Bather, 1880–1881 File:Rodin Je suis belle DMA 1985-R-66.jpg|Auguste Rodin, I Am Beautiful, 1882 File:Rodin The Sirens DMA 1985-R-65.jpg|Auguste Rodin, The Sirens, 1888 File:Sisley Road Along the Seine at Saint-Mammes DMA 1985-R-69.jpg|Alfred Sisley, Road Along the Seine at Saint-Mammes, c.1880 File:Toulouse-Lautrec Dog DMA.jpg|Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dog, 1880 File:Toulouse-Lautrec Prostitutes DMA.jpg|Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Prostitutes, 1893–1895 File:Toulouse-Lautrec The last respects DMA.jpg|Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, The Last Respects, 1887 File:Vincent van Gogh. Café Terrace at Night. 1888. Reed pen and ink over pencil on laid paper, (65.4 x 47.1 cm). Dallas Museum of Art.jpg|Vincent van Gogh, Café Terrace at Night, 1888 File:Wheatfield - Van Gogh.jpg|Vincent van Gogh, Sheaves of Wheat, July 1890 File:Édouard Vuillard - Le Petit Restaurant (ca.1900-1901).jpg|Édouard Vuillard, The Little Restaurant, 1894 File:Vuillard The Tent DMA.jpg|Édouard Vuillard, The Tent, 1908 File:Édouard Manet - Espagnole à la Croix Noire.jpg|Édouard Manet, Espagnole à la Croix Noire, c.1863 File:Édouard Manet - Le chanteur espagnol.jpg|Édouard Manet, The Spanish Singer, 1891 ==References==