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 fish-eye lens captures Pablo Picasso at his home, Mas Notre-Dame-de-Vie in Mougins, 1970. The artist, wearing a blue sweater vest, is engrossed in his work on the etching "Les coulisses du tableau: odalisque et peintre". This photo was taken for Edward Quinn's film, for which the eighty-nine-year-old Picasso asked to be filmed making a drypoint to demonstrate the steadiness of his hand. Seated at a wooden table holding an inkwell and a single orchid, he works beneath a framed portrait of his younger self, with arched French doors revealing the night outside.
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- "Suite 156 L003. Les coulisses du tableau: odalisque et peintre", 1970. Bloch.IV:1858; Geiser/Baer:1893.IX Ba.
- Hakone:107
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Photo Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com
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