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.

Pablo Picasso works on a painting on glass during the filming of "Le mystère Picasso" at the Studios de la Victorine in Nice, 1955. Captured from an over-the-shoulder perspective, the shirtless artist is silhouetted against the glowing, backlit surface. His bold black lines form a stylized rooster—one stage in a creative sequence documented for the film where a simple bouquet was transformed first into a fish, then a cock, and finally the head of a faun. On his workspace below, bottles of ink are visible beside a Cinzano box.

Artworks:

"Visage", 1955. MPParis:1983.42;

Abbreviations: see Bibliography

Keywords:

AtWork, MysterePicasso

Filename:

pic551099.jpg

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