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 in 1955, Pablo Picasso creates a bucolic pastoral scene intended as a background for the film "Le mystère Picasso". Shirtless and in dark shorts, he steadies himself with a rustic ladder while working on the large-scale line drawing. To the right, his daughter Maya watches attentively, dressed in a striped shirt. Strong lighting from the left casts the artist’s shadow onto the wall, where it merges with the fluid, continuous-line composition of stylized 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, StripedShirt

Filename:

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