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)

In an intimate, warmly lit scene at his Mas Notre-Dame-de-Vie home in Mougins, Pablo Picasso is intently focused on his work. Seated in profile at a round table, the artist, wearing a red shirt and blue sweater vest, creates the etching "Les coulisses du tableau: odalisque et peintre." The room—filled with a bentwood rocking chair, a television, and one of his own paintings—was filmed by Edward Quinn in 1970 to demonstrate the eighty-nine-year-old's remarkably steady 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, RockingChair

Filename:

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