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)

At age 89, Pablo Picasso asked Edward Quinn to film him making a drypoint to demonstrate the steadiness of his hand. This photograph, taken during that session at his Mougins home in 1970, captures the artist’s intense focus. Dressed in a red shirt and blue sweater vest, his head is bowed in concentration as he holds a tool to the plate to create the etching "Les coulisses du tableau: odalisque et peintre". The image was captured during the making of Quinn's film "Pablo Picasso l'homme et son oeuvre".

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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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