Pablo Picasso working on a bucolic pastoral scene on drawing paper which was to serve as background for the film "Le mystère Picasso". Maya Picasso on the right. Nice, Studios de la Victorine 1955.

At the Studios de la Victorine in Nice, 1955, a shirtless Pablo Picasso works from an A-frame ladder on a bucolic pastoral scene. The large-scale drawing on paper was to serve as a background for the film "Le mystère Picasso." While two men steady his ladder, his daughter, Maya Picasso, stands on a wooden box to the right, reaching toward her father. The dramatic, single-source lighting casts long, stark shadows of the figures across the studio floor and the fluid, continuous-line artwork itself.

Artworks:

"Musicien, nymphe à la chêvre et danseuse au tambourin", 1955. Not in the film. Cooper, D. Picasso et le Théâtre. Paris 1968:402

Abbreviations: see Bibliography

Keywords:

AtWork, Music, Musicians, MysterePicasso

Filename:

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