Pablo Picasso working on a bucolic pastoral scene on drawing paper which was to serve as background for the film "Le mystère Picasso". Nice, Studios de la Victorine 1955. - Photo by Edward Quinn

Pablo Picasso working on a bucolic pastoral scene on drawing paper which was to serve as background for the film "Le mystère Picasso". Nice, Studios de la Victorine 1955.

At the Studios de la Victorine in Nice in 1955, Pablo Picasso stands in profile behind a vintage film camera during the making of "Le mystère Picasso." To the right, director Henri-Georges Clouzot pauses contemplatively, a pipe raised to his lips. The dramatically lit scene captures their collaboration, with one of the artist's large-scale bucolic drawings, created specifically as a background for the film, visible behind them.


Artworks:

  • "Musicien, nymphe à la chêvre et danseuse au tambourin", 1955. Not in the film. Cooper, D. Picasso et le Théâtre. Paris 1968:402
  • Abbreviations: see Bibliography


Keywords:

Camera, FilmSet, Music, Musicians, MysterePicasso

Filename:

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