Pablo Picasso discussing with the expert Pierre Baudouin the project for a tapestry designed by him. At right Paulo Picasso. La Californie, Cannes 1959.

On the sunlit steps of his villa La Californie in Cannes, Pablo Picasso inspects a tapestry design he created in 1959. Dressed in a dark blue shirt and brown plaid trousers, the artist studies the large, abstract piece held for his review by the expert Pierre Baudouin and Picasso's son, Paulo (right). The artwork features a reddish-brown background with figures in profile and other motifs. In the foreground, one of the family’s boxer dogs descends the steps.

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Tapestry "Les clowns à la lune bleue", 1959, not 1969. Christie's London, Feb 2004. After litho "Deux clowns: trois dessins collés au dos d'une affiche". 1954. Bloch.I:766

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