Etching "Les coulisses du tableau: odalisque et peintre", 1970. Mas Notre-Dame-de-Vie, Mougins 1970.T his photo sequence was made during the making of Quinn’s film "Pablo Picasso l' homme et son oeuvre". "When Pablo Picasso was eighty-nine he asked Quinn to film him making a drypoint in order to demonstrate the steadiness of his hand". (Quinn in conversation with Marilyn McCully 1983)

Pablo Picasso’s 1970 etching, "Les coulisses du tableau: odalisque et peintre," is a monochromatic print filled with energetic linework. A topless odalisque appears in profile opposite a larger male figure—the painter—wearing a wreath. This photograph was taken at Picasso’s studio in Mougins for Edward Quinn’s film about the artist. Then eighty-nine, Picasso specifically asked Quinn to film him making the drypoint to demonstrate the unwavering steadiness of his hand.

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"Suite 156 L003. Les coulisses du tableau: odalisque et peintre, Etat VI", 1970. Bloch.IV:1858; Geiser/Baer:1893.IX Ba.
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