A young art student, Sylvette David, was chosen by Pablo Picasso as model in 1954. for a series of paintings and drawings. With her fiancée Toby Jellinek. Vallauris 1954. - Photo by Edward Quinn

A young art student, Sylvette David, was chosen by Pablo Picasso as model in 1954. for a series of paintings and drawings. With her fiancée Toby Jellinek. Vallauris 1954.

Sylvette David, a young art student chosen by Pablo Picasso as a model, watches her fiancée Toby Jellinek in a studio. Jellinek concentrates on his welding, the torch casting a brilliant flare of light and sparks. With her blonde hair in a high ponytail and a cigarette in hand, David looks on intently amid abstract metal sculptures and gas cylinders. Vallauris, 1954.


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