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)

A high-angle, fisheye lens captures Pablo Picasso at his home, Mas Notre-Dame-de-Vie in Mougins, in 1970. Aged eighty-nine, he leans intently over a round wooden table, working with a stylus on the etching "Les coulisses du tableau: odalisque et peintre". This photograph was taken during the filming of Quinn’s "Pablo Picasso l'homme et son oeuvre", a project the artist initiated to demonstrate his remarkably steady hand. The distorted perspective encompasses the creative clutter of the studio, from art supplies to chairs piled high with books.

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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