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, 1955, Pablo Picasso works on a bucolic pastoral scene intended as a background for the film "Le mystère Picasso." A spotlight dramatically illuminates the large drawing, rendered in bold, fluid lines. The mythological composition features a leaping, nude female figure with a tambourine, a prancing goat-like animal, a rabbit-headed creature playing a double-flute, and a seated, winged woman. The dramatic lighting casts deep shadows across the studio floor, where the artist's legs are partially visible at left.

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:

AtWork, Music, Musicians, MysterePicasso

Filename:

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