During filming of "Le mystère Picasso". Pablo Picasso working on "Tête de femme" with colored ink. He had a frame constructed on which he could stretch a transluscent piece of paper. He drew on one side, and the camera filmed the drawing being born from the other side. Nice, Studios de la Victorine 1955.
During the filming of "Le mystère Picasso" in 1955, Pablo Picasso pauses in a moment of pensive contemplation. Seated in profile at the Studios de la Victorine in Nice, he rests his chin in his hand while studying "Tête de femme," a Cubist-style portrait he is creating with colored ink. The work is drawn on a specially constructed, backlit frame of translucent paper, an innovation that allowed a camera to film the drawing’s birth from the reverse side. The illuminated art contrasts dramatically with the artist’s shadowed figure.
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- "Tête de femme", 1955. MPParis:1983.35
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Photo Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com / © Succession Picasso / 2020, ProLitteris, Zurich
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