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 works outside his studio Le Fournas in Vallauris, 1953. Dressed in a light-colored sweater and dark, wide-legged trousers, he collects a branch from the ground for a figure he is assembling from odds and ends. This branch was an early component for the sculpture that would become "La femme à la clé" ("Woman with a key"), for which he later substituted an actual key. Bright sunlight casts a sharp ladder shadow onto the building's weathered facade.

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"La femme à la clé (La Taulière)", 1954. Spies:237

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