Pablo Picasso discussing with the expert Pierre Baudouin the project for a tapestry designed by him. Luis Miguel Dominguin and at right Paulo Picasso. La Californie, Cannes 1959. - Photo by Edward Quinn

Pablo Picasso discussing with the expert Pierre Baudouin the project for a tapestry designed by him. Luis Miguel Dominguin and at right Paulo Picasso. La Californie, Cannes 1959.

At his villa La Californie in Cannes, 1959, Pablo Picasso examines a tapestry of his own design. Bent over the large textile with its bold, abstract pattern, the artist discusses the project with expert Pierre Baudouin and Luis Miguel Dominguin. On the stone steps before the villa's glass doors, Picasso's son Paulo holds one end of the piece at far right.


Artworks:

  • Tapestry "Les clowns à la lune bleue", 1959, not 1969. Christie's London, Feb 2004. After litho "Deux clowns: trois dessins collés au dos d'une affiche". 1954. Bloch.I:766
  • Abbreviations: see Bibliography


Keywords:

Bullfighters

Filename:

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