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 his cluttered studio at Mas Notre-Dame-de-Vie, Mougins, Pablo Picasso works on the etching "Les coulisses du tableau: odalisque et peintre" in 1970. At eighty-nine, the artist is deeply engrossed, his head resting on his hand as he sits at a round wooden table. The room reflects his life, filled with a bentwood rocking chair, books, a modernist painting, and a birdcage. This image was captured during the filming of a sequence intended to demonstrate the remarkable steadiness of Picasso's hand for Edward Quinn's film, "Pablo Picasso l'homme et son oeuvre."

Artworks:

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

Abbreviations: see Bibliography

Keywords:

AtWork, BirdCage, RockingChair

Filename:

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