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.

At his Le Fournas studio in Vallauris, 1953, Pablo Picasso works on a sculpture assembled from his scrap heap. Standing in the rustic doorway, dressed in a light-colored shirt and dark, wide-legged trousers, he concentrates on a small branch he has selected. This branch was a provisional element for the sculpture that would become "La femme à la clé" ("Woman with a key"), in which it was ultimately replaced by a key. The sunlit, weathered wall behind him is marked by the sharp shadow of a ladder.

Artworks:

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

Abbreviations: see Bibliography

Keywords:

AtWork, Sculptures

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