Pablo Picasso working in his sculpture studio Le Fournas making a sculpture figure with odds and ends from his scrap heap. Here he is collecting a branch to ad to the sculpture. The branch was later replaced by a key. The finished sculpture got the name "La femme à la clé (La Taulière)" ("Woman with a key"). Le Fournas, Vallauris 1953.

Pablo Picasso steps from his sculpture studio, Le Fournas, in Vallauris, 1953. Looking down, he collects a branch from the unkempt grounds for a new work, "La femme à la clé" ("Woman with a key"), which he was assembling from odds and ends. The branch would later be replaced by a key to complete the sculpture. The cluttered studio is faintly visible inside the dark doorway of the rustic building, as a ladder casts its shadow on the sunlit wall.

Artworks:

"La femme à la clé (La Taulière)", 1954. Spies:237
"Petite fille sautant à la corde", 1950. Spies:408.I; MPParis:336.I
"La femme à la clé (La Taulière)", 1954. Spies:237

Abbreviations: see Bibliography

Keywords:

AtWork, Sculptures

Filename:

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