Picasso and his work
Te images of the Roberto Otero Photographic Archive reveal Pablo Picasso going about his everyday life, whether at work on his latest exhibition of ceramics in Vallauris, selecting pieces for the Homage to Picasso retrospective, or playing host to friends and professionals in the company of his wife, Jacqueline Roque. They also illustrate the solitude the artist sought in his creative process and the artworks he lived with every day.
Picasso working on the project The Chicago Picasso, Notre-Dame-de-Vie, Mougins, August 1966
Galería de imágenes
Picasso text to “The painter (1964)”, Notre-Dame-de-Vie, Mougins, 1964. The painting by with Picasso is posing, The Painter, is a gouache painting. A reproduction of one of his canvases from 30th March 1963.
Foreground, The Bull (1957). Behind is a cast of the Dying Slave by Michelangelo, that Picasso found in the basement of the Museum of Antibes.
‘But Picasso is that and many other things at the same time, of course. It is just that it is difficult to explain, and perhaps that is why more than fifteen hundred works have already been written about his life and his work, without yet having succeeded in unravelling the mystery’.
Roberto Otero, 1966
Picasso with his work Head (1934), La Californie, Cannes, 1961. Pablo Picasso next to a bronze cast of his sculpture Head (1934), on which has placed a hat.
Work table of Pablo Picasso in the sculpture room at Notre-Dame-de-Vie, Mougins, 1964-1972.
Picasso retouching his canvas The lovers (1919), which is one of the tables the he would send to be shown at the Grand Palais in Paris in November 1966. There, Jean Leymarie organized a major retrospective exhibition Hommage à Picasso.
View of the sculpture room in Notre-Dame-De-Vie, 1966. In the foreground Girl Skipping (1950), Man with Javelin (1958), Female Bather Playing (1958) and Glass with Flower (1951)
‘There are no social differences between Picasso’s paintings. All these women, belonging to different periods, will travel in the same lorry, protected by identical travel blankets of the same quality’.
Roberto Otero, 1966
The sculptures that appear in the pictures are, from left to right: Head of a Woman (1953), Branches (1956), Pregnant Woman, Second Stage (1950-1959) and Vase with Flowers and a Plate of Cakes (1951).
Sculptures by Picasso in the garden of La Californie, Cannes, 1960-1972. From left to right: The Goat (1950), Head of a Woman (1931) and The Woman in a Long Dress (1943).