Pablo Picasso with the goat Esmeralda at Christmas 1956. She was a Christmas present from Jacqueline. La Californie, Cannes 1956.
At his villa La Californie in Cannes, Pablo Picasso sits on the polished parquet floor with Esmeralda, a goat given to him by Jacqueline as a Christmas present in 1956. In the sunlit, cluttered room, the artist, wearing a plaid shirt, looks on with a slight smile as the shaggy goat noses a low wooden table laden with ceramics. Sunlight streams in, casting long shadows and illuminating the contrast between the room's elegant neoclassical moldings and the creative chaos of the artist's domestic life.
Artworks:
- "Nature morte au compotier" or "Nature morte aux cerises", 1943. Guigon:234
- "Poissons et oiseaux", 1955. RamieG:312; Bloch.III:62
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Photo Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com / © Succession Picasso / 2020, ProLitteris, Zurich
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