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)

Pablo Picasso in a moment of deep concentration at his home, Mas Notre-Dame-de-Vie in Mougins, 1970. His head, with its fringe of white hair and deeply creased forehead, is tilted downward, his gaze focused through thick glasses. Dressed in a light blue sweater over a red-orange shirt, the eighty-nine-year-old artist was being filmed by Edward Quinn as he worked on the etching "Les coulisses du tableau: odalisque et peintre." Picasso himself had requested the session to demonstrate the enduring steadiness of his hand.

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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

Abbreviations: see Bibliography

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