Something begun as a bouquet has become first a fish, then a cock, and finally the head of a faun. Pablo Picasso at work during filming of "Le mystère Picasso". Nice, Studios de la Victorine, 1955.

During the 1955 filming of "Le mystère Picasso" at the Studios de la Victorine in Nice, a shirtless Pablo Picasso sits intently on a wooden crate. He paints a stylized cockerel on a large, illuminated surface, one stage of a creative sequence in which a bouquet transformed into a fish, a cock, and finally the head of a faun. On a makeshift shelf, his supplies include several Cinzano ashtrays repurposed as mixing palettes.

Artworks:

"Visage", 1955. MPParis:1983.42;

Abbreviations: see Bibliography

Keywords:

AtWork, MysterePicasso

Filename:

pic551098.jpg

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