Pablo Picasso, Luis Miguel Dominguin and his wife Lucia Bosè. La Californie, Cannes 1959.

In the sunlit, art-filled studio of his Villa La Californie in Cannes, 1959, Pablo Picasso gestures with one hand while speaking with the actress Lucia Bosè. Holding a cigarette in his other hand, he engages an attentive Bosè, who looks down at what he is indicating. Standing between and slightly behind them, her husband, the bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin, observes the interaction. The room is dense with canvases, easels, and sculptures, with bright, direct sunlight casting sharp shadows across the figures and floor.

Artworks:

From left left: vase on the cupboard>> Artwork(s) not yet identified
Forehead mask, Stepan 40
"Oiseau", 1957 (Spies dates 1958, probably wrong), Spies:543b
Partly hidden "Femme se tenant les genoux" (inachevé) (Jacqueline), 1954. Richardson.2010:203
Partly hidden "Homme, femme et enfant", 1906. , Zervos.IIb:587
"Bacchanale", 1959. Bloch.I:930.
"Paysage" or "L'arbre", 1907. Zervos.IIb:681; MPParis:21
"Nature morte au compotier", 1937. Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan, not in Zervos
Two masks on the wall >> Artwork(s) not yet identified
Balaphone, Baninko, Mali, Stepan:29

Abbreviations: see Bibliography

Keywords:

ArtNotIdentified, Bullfighters, Ceramics, Masks, Sculptures

Filename:

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