Pablo Picasso working on the etching "Les coulisses du tableau: odalisque et peintre", 1970. Mas Notre-Dame-de-Vie, Mougins 1970. This 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)

At his home, Mas Notre-Dame-de-Vie in Mougins, Pablo Picasso works on the etching "Les coulisses du tableau: odalisque et peintre" in 1970. The artist, then eighty-nine, sits focused at a round table, clad in a red shirt and blue sweater vest. His eclectic studio is filled with personal effects: a bentwood rocking chair in the foreground, and behind him, stacks of books, a modernist painting, and an ornate birdcage. This image was made for Edward Quinn's film "Pablo Picasso l'homme et son oeuvre" to demonstrate the enduring steadiness of the artist’s hand.

Artworks:

"Suite 156 L003. Les coulisses du tableau: odalisque et peintre", 1970. Bloch.IV:1858; Geiser/Baer:1893.IX Ba.
Hakone:107
"Mousquetaire", 1969. Richardson.2009:91

Abbreviations: see Bibliography

Keywords:

AtWork, BirdCage, RockingChair

Filename:

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