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.

In a darkened room at the Studios de la Victorine in Nice, Pablo Picasso is captured during the filming of "Le mystère Picasso" in 1955. Seen in profile, his face is illuminated as he gazes intently at his work "Tête de femme." For the film, Picasso drew with colored ink on a translucent sheet stretched over a frame, allowing a camera on the reverse side to record the artwork’s creation. The grainy photograph captures an intimate atmosphere of focused contemplation as the stylized cubist face takes shape on the brightly lit surface.

Artworks:

"Tête de femme", 1955. MPParis:1983.35

Abbreviations: see Bibliography

Keywords:

AtWork, MysterePicasso

Filename:

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