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, Pablo Picasso is silhouetted in a director's chair, his back to the camera. He contemplates a vast drawing on paper—a bucolic pastoral scene with nudes and a faun—intended as a background for the film "Le mystère Picasso." To the right, his daughter, Maya Picasso, sits on a simple wooden crate, looking directly at the camera. The stark, high-contrast lighting of the raw studio space casts deep, dramatic shadows, capturing an intimate moment of creation.

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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