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.

In a rustic Vallauris workshop, Sylvette David observes her fiancé, Toby Jellinek, at work in 1954. That same year, the young art student became a notable model for Pablo Picasso. Wearing protective goggles, Jellinek concentrates on a metal sculpture, applying a brazing torch to a piece clamped in a vise. David, with her signature high ponytail, watches intently with her arms crossed amid abstract metalwork displayed on the studio’s stone walls.

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