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, a shirtless Pablo Picasso works on a monumental pastoral scene, his back to the camera as he paints a faun playing a flute. The vast black line drawing on paper was created in 1955 to serve as a background for the film "Le mystère Picasso." To his right, his daughter Maya Picasso stands in profile, attentively observing her father's work on the dynamic composition, which also includes a goat and two nude figures.

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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