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Pablo Picasso, Michel Leiris and Louise Leiris, Pierre Baudouin and Paulo Picasso with tapestry "Les clowns à la lune bleue", La Californie, Cannes 1959. - Photo by Edward Quinn

Pablo Picasso, Michel Leiris and Louise Leiris, Pierre Baudouin and Paulo Picasso with tapestry "Les clowns à la lune bleue", La Californie, Cannes 1959.

In his sunlit studio at the Villa La Californie in Cannes, Pablo Picasso intently inspects the tapestry "Les clowns à la lune bleue." The artist, dressed in a dark blue shirt and patterned trousers, is joined by an intimate group in 1959: his son Paulo Picasso, Pierre Baudouin, and friends Michel and Louise Leiris. The large, colorful work is held aloft for his consideration amid a creative clutter of other paintings, sculptures, and canvases that fill the high-ceilinged room, with bright sunlight casting long shadows across the floor.

Artworks:

  • "Intérieur avec femme dans un rocking-chair", 1956. Westheider:32
  • "Nature morte au compotier" or "Nature morte aux cerises", 1943. Guigon:234
  • Draft for "Tête de taureau", or "Tête cornue", 1958. Spies:545; Zervos.XVIII:97 (Cardboard maquette Picasso probably used for his wood sculpture "Taureau")
  • "Bacchanale au taureau", 1959. Bloch.I:933; Geiser/Baer:1264.IIB2
  • "Portrait de femme à la robe verte II", 1956. Richardson.2010:207
  • "Intérieur avec chaise longue bleu I" or "Interieur rouge avec un transatlantique bleu", 1958. Westheider:36 (print see Christie's New York, 2.11.2004)
  • On the shelf from left: "La grue", 1952-1954. Spies:461.II; MPParis:343
  • "Tête de femme (Dora Maar)", 1941. Spies:197.II;
  • "Grand masque - Visage découpage", 1955. Richardson.2010:189
  • "Nature morte aux quatre poissons", 1957 or 1956 (Picasso, céramiste et la Méditerranée, Cat. 139, Exposition à Aubagne et Sèvres 2013/2014)
  • "Nu à la chaise", 1954. Bloch.I:763
  • "Masque". 1955/1956. Spies:587
  • Banda mask, Stepan:41
  • Tapestry "Les clowns à la lune bleue", 1959, not 1969. Christie's London, Feb 2004. After litho "Deux clowns: trois dessins collés au dos d'une affiche". 1954. Bloch.I:766

    • Abbreviations: see Bibliography

Keywords:

RockingChair, Sculptures, Writers

Filename:

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Photo Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com / © Succession Picasso / 2020, ProLitteris, Zurich
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