Picasso working in his sculpture studio Le Fournas making a sculpture figure with odds and ends from his scrap heap. The branch was later replaced by a key. The finished sculpture got the name "La femme à la clé (La Taulière)" ("Woman with a key"). Le Fournas, Vallauris 1953.

In his sculpture studio Le Fournas in Vallauris, 1953, Pablo Picasso works on a figure assembled from his scrap heap. Lying on the tiled workshop floor, the sculpture’s body is a large metal cylinder with pipe legs and a blocky, T-shaped head. In this early stage of its creation, one arm holds a branch, which the artist would later replace with a key to complete the work titled “La femme à la clé (La Taulière).” Picasso’s feet are visible at the top of the frame.

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"La femme à la clé (La Taulière)”, 1954. WS:237

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