Pablo Picasso, Luis Miguel Dominguin and Paulo Picasso. La Californie, Cannes 1959.

Viewed from inside Pablo Picasso’s studio at his Villa La Californie in Cannes, an ornate arched doorway frames a sunlit scene in 1959. In the intense backlighting, the bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin places his hands on the chest of Paulo Picasso. To their right, Pablo Picasso observes the interaction. The strong light silhouettes the figures, casting elongated shadows across the patterned floor of the dimly lit interior, where a sculpted bust rests on an easel.

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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
"Tête de femme (Dora Maar)", 1941. Spies:197.II,

Abbreviations: see Bibliography

Keywords:

Bullfighters, Sculptures

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