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Pablo Picasso working on gouache with Caran d'ache wax oil pastels and water color. Pablo Picasso always liked surprises and in his work he encouraged unpredictable outcomes. La Californie, Cannes 1961. - Photo by Edward Quinn

Pablo Picasso working on gouache with Caran d'ache wax oil pastels and water color. Pablo Picasso always liked surprises and in his work he encouraged unpredictable outcomes. La Californie, Cannes 1961.

At his villa La Californie in Cannes, 1961, Pablo Picasso is deeply focused on a gouache set on a small, tilted easel. He works with Caran d'Ache wax oil pastels and watercolor, materials that suited his penchant for encouraging unpredictable outcomes in his art. The high-ceilinged room serves as both gallery and workshop, its ornate paneling a backdrop for his cubist paintings, stringed instruments, and the creative ephemera scattered throughout the space.

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Artworks:

  • Vase et bouquet, similar "vase et bouquet",
  • "Intérieur avec femme dans un rocking-chair", 1956. Westheider:32
  • "La Californie IV", 1958. Westheider:35
  • "Nature morte au compotier" or "Nature morte aux cerises", 1943. Guigon:234
  • "Le dormeur", 1956. RamieA:323s; Matamoros:299– "Horloge à décor de visage" or "Visage en forme d'horloge", 1956. RamieA:326s
  • Bullfight painting by Claude: POUR MON PAPA CHERIE CLAUDE
  • "Oeuf de pâques". Signed and dedicated: Pour mon ami Quinn 31.3.61, 1961. Sotheby's London, 25.3.1992
  • In the other room: "Intérieur avec chaise longue bleu I" or "Interieur rouge avec un transatlantique bleu", 1958. Westheider:36 (print see Christie's New York, 2.11.2004)
  • "Portrait de femme à la robe verte II", 1956. Richardson.2010:207
  • "La grue", 1951. Spies:461.IIc
  • "Nue de face aux bras levés. Etude pour les Demoiselles d'Avignon", 1907. Zervos.XXVI:190; MPParis:13

    • Abbreviations: see Bibliography

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