Pablo Picasso would sometimes squeeze a vase before the clay had hardened, molding it into a representational shape. "To give it life," he once said, "I have to wring its neck." Delighted that he could make the clay respond to any fantasy that passed through his mind, he shaped mythologicat figures such as fauns and satyrs, as well as vases representing graceful women, bulls, goats, fish, and above all, owls and doves. Here Pablo Picasso is working on small bird sculpture, Luciano Emmer film. Madoura pottery, Vallauris 14./15.10.1953.

With a look of intense concentration, Pablo Picasso works on a small bird sculpture at the Madoura pottery in Vallauris, 14/15 October 1953. Dressed in a dark sweater and corduroy trousers, he leans over a wooden worktable, holding a small tool. This candid moment is being documented for a film by director Luciano Emmer, as suggested by the camera crew in the foreground. To his left, a young man with an expressive face looks on, his arm raised toward the unfinished, wooden-beamed ceiling of the rustic workshop.

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AtWork, Camera, Ceramics, FilmSet, Sculptures

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