Best of portrait photos of Picasso

Edward Quinn lived and worked in the ‘50s and ‘60s as a photographer on the Côte d’Azur, the French Riviera. In 1951 he met and photographed Pablo Picasso for the first time. They became friends and Quinn photographed Picasso for the rest of the artist's life.

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  • Pablo Picasso at the Madoura pottery. Vallauris 23.3.1953. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • The first portrait Quinn made of Pablo Picasso taken at the summer ceramic exhibition "Japon. Céramique contemporaine" at the Nérolium. Vallauris 21.7.1951. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso at the door of his sculpture studio Le Fournas. Vallauris 1953. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso at Studio Le Fournas. Vallauris 1953. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso in front of the Madoura pottery. Vallauris 1953. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso would sometimes squeeze a vase before the clay had hardened, molding it into a representational shape. "To give it life," he once said, "I have to wring its neck." Delighted that he could make the clay respond to any fantasy that passed through his mind, he shaped mythological figures such as fauns and satyrs, as well as vases representing graceful women, bulls, goats, fish, and above all, owls and doves. Here Pablo Picasso is working on small bird sculpture, Luciano Emmer film. Madoura pottery, Vallauris 14./15.10.1953. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso with ladder outside studio Le Fournas, Vallauris 1953. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso in his sculpture studio Le Fournas just before starting to work on "La femme à la clé (La Taulière)" ("Woman with a key"). Le Fournas, Vallauris 1953. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Portrait of Pablo Picasso in white pullover at his studio Le Fournas. Vallauris 1953. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso standing in a shaft of light that shone through an opening in the wall of Chapelle de la Paix. During filming of Pablo Picasso working on the "War and Peace study" drawings on the wall of Chapelle de la Paix (or Temple de la Paix). Documentary film by Luciano Emmer. Vallauris 1953. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso in front of retaurant Chez Tetou. Golfe-Juan 1954. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso completely at ease, with baggy, unpressed trousers, a very loose-fitting shirt, and carpet slippers, in his bedroom at La Galloise, Vallauris 1954. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso pensively, with baggy, unpressed trousers, a very loose-fitting shirt and carpet slippers, in his bedroom at La Galloise, Vallauris 1954. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso completely at ease, with baggy, unpressed trousers, a very loose-fitting shirt and carpet slippers, in his bedroom with three mirrors at La Galloise, Vallauris 1954. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso with "Toros en Vallauris 1954", a linocut printed by Hidalgo Arnéra for the bullfight in Vallauris which was organized in Pablo Picasso's honor. La Galloise, Vallauris 1954. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso during filming of "Le mystère Picasso". Nice, Studios de la Victorine, 1955. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso during filming of "Le mystère Picasso". Nice, Studios de la Victorine, 1955. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • The making of "La plage à la Garoupe I" for the film "Le mystère Picasso". Nice, Studios de la Victorine, 1955. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso. Shooting break during filming of "Le mystère Picasso". Nice, Studios de la Victorine, 1955. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso during filming of "Le mystère Picasso", documentary. Nice, Studios de la Victorine, 1955. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso during filming of "Le mystère Picasso", documentary. Nice, Studios de la Victorine, 1955. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso after working on "La Célestine" where he had to do his signature backwards. "Le mystère Picasso", Nice, Studios de la Victorine 1955. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • In Spanish mood Pablo Picasso wears a "chapeau cordouan" as he pretends to play guitar at restaurant Le Vallauris. Vallauris 11.8.1955. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso with hat and cape of a toreador at the lunch given for his friends at restaurant Le Vallauris before the bullfight. Claude Picasso in the background. Vallauris 1955. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • On the grandstand of a bullfight put on in Pablo Picasso's honor. On the left of Pablo Picasso Jacqueline, on the right Jean Cocteau, Inès Sassier, Pablo Picasso's housekeeper and Francine Weisweiller and her daughter Carole, behind Pablo Picasso his children Paloma Picasso, Maya Picasso and Claude Picasso, in front on the left photographer Jacques-Henri Lartigue, his wife Florette. Vallauris 1955. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso with wooden sculpture "L’enfant". La Californie, Cannes 1956. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso in a whimsical costume. Among other things, he has on a bullfighter’s jacket, given to him by his friend, the famous matador Dominguin. In front of the garden gate at La Californie. Cannes 1956. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso at La Californie, Cannes 1957. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso at La Californie, Cannes 21.11.1957. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso at his Villa La Californie, Cannes 1957. Behind him the sculpture "Tête de femme (Dora Maar)", 1941. Cannes 2.11.1957. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • At the bullfight. Pablo Picasso and Luis Miguel Dominguin (spectator because of injuries). Corrida des vendanges. Arles 1959. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso with a wicker bull mask originally intended for bullfighters' training, he becomes a living Minotaur. Beside him is a sculpture made of scrap wood with the features painted on it. La Californie, Cannes 1959. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso at La Californie, Cannes 1959. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso at La Californie, in the background the sculpture "La femme enceinte". Cannes 1959. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso in the rocking-chair with a special lighting. La Californie, Cannes 1959. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso. La Californie, Cannes 1959. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso in the rocking-chair with a special lighting. La Californie, Cannes 1959. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso in the rocking-chair with a special lighting. La Californie, Cannes 1959. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso with a glass object of Egidio Costantini de la Fucina Degli Angeli (see Pic531407, MPParis:1950.4.1). La Californie, Cannes 1961. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso viewing a book on himself. A Ripolin can behind him on a table by Joseph-Marius Tiola. La Californie, Cannes 1961. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso holding "Tête de clown". On the easel drawings for Quinn's book "Pablo Picasso at Work". Mas de Notre-Dame-de-Vie, Mougins 1961. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso and Jacqueline attending a bullfight. Fréjus 1965. (Photos of this bullfight in the bull ring see "Miscellaneous") - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso. Notre-Dame- de-Vie, Mougins 1967. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Pablo Picasso at Mas Notre-Dame-de-Vie, Mougins 1971. - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Serigraphy orange by Edward Quinn, 1974: Pablo Picasso in the rocking-chair with a special lighting. La Californie, Cannes 1959. Based on the photo Pic590360 - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Serigraphy brown by Edward Quinn, 1974: Pablo Picasso in the rocking-chair with a special lighting. La Californie, Cannes 1959. Based on the photo Pic590360 - Photo by Edward Quinn
  • Serigraphy black by Edward Quinn, 1974: Pablo Picasso in the rocking-chair with a special lighting. La Californie, Cannes 1959. Based on the photo Pic590360 - Photo by Edward Quinn