La Californie 1961.

In an artist's studio at the villa La Californie in 1961, cubist paintings and drawings are propped against furniture and on the floor. At the back, a large canvas with bold, leaf-like patterns is intensely backlit by a window, rendering it semi-translucent. Strong sunlight from the right casts the prominent, dark shadow of a figure across this canvas and the smaller still lifes arranged on the floor below, creating a scene of high contrast.

Artworks:

Earlier stage of "Deux femmes (Deux femmes avec un vase à fleurs)", 1959. Bloch.I:915; Geiser/Baer:1239" >> Artwork(s) not yet identified
"Intérieur avec chaise longue bleu I" or "Interieur rouge avec un transatlantique bleu", 1959. Christie's New York, 2.11.2004 (Oil on canvas see Westheider:36)
"Nu aux bras levés", 1955. Grunenberg:78
"Nature morte au compotier", 1937. Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
"Nature morte à la bougie", 1937. Sotheby's London, 19.6.2013
"Paysage" or "L'arbre", 1907. Zervos.IIb:681; MPParis:21

Abbreviations: see Bibliography

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