The Edward Quinn Archive

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 Picasso is working on small bird sculpture, Luciano Emmer film. Madoura pottery, Vallauris 14./15.10.1953. - Photo by Edward Quinn

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 Picasso is working on small bird sculpture, Luciano Emmer film. Madoura pottery, Vallauris 14./15.10.1953.

Artworks:

  • "Colombe", 1953. Matamoros:178 or WS:499 or similar

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Photo Edward Quinn, © edwardquinn.com and © Succession Picasso, Paris
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