This picture shows the Rolleiflex camera of Edward Quinn. Color crayon drawing made Sep. 27 1961 for Edward Quinn's book "Pablo Picasso at work". Notre-Dame-de-Vie, Mougins 1961. (date of the photo). - Photo by Edward Quinn

This picture shows the Rolleiflex camera of Edward Quinn. Color crayon drawing made Sep. 27 1961 for Edward Quinn's book "Pablo Picasso at work". Notre-Dame-de-Vie, Mougins 1961. (date of the photo).

On September 27, 1961, Pablo Picasso created this color crayon drawing of Edward Quinn’s Rolleiflex camera for the photographer's book, *Pablo Picasso at work*. Rendered on spiral-bound paper as a child-like face, the camera has a brown, squarish outline, two green circles for lenses, and a large, yellow triangular nose. Picasso inscribed "Picasso II" and the date in the upper-left corner at his home, Notre-Dame-de-Vie, in Mougins.


Artworks:

  • This picture shows the Rolleiflex camera of E. Quinn. Color crayon drawing made 27.9.1961 for the back cover Edward Quinn's book "Picasso at work". A photographic study. Text by Roland Penrose. New York 1965. Original version: Picasso. Werk und Tage. Manesse, Zürich 1965.
  • Abbreviations: see Bibliography


Keywords:

Books, Camera

Filename:

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