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Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Studio in La Californie
Image View:
Detail, blank canvas at center recalls Courbet's The Artist's Studio, canvas with figure close to the ground recalls the composition of Velázquez's Las Meninas
Creator:
Pablo Picasso (Spanish painter, 1881-1973)
Location:
repository: Musée Picasso [Paris] (Paris, Île-de-France, France) MP211
Location Note:
From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
Date:
March 30, 1956 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
114 cm (height) x 146 cm (width)
Subjects:
abstraction; decorative arts; Artists' studios; interiors
Description:
Shortly after moving into 'La Californie', near Cannes, Picosso produced a series of paintings representing the interior of his new studio. In the 1950s, Picasso's style changed once again, as he took to producing reinterpretations of the art of the great masters. He made a series of works based on Velázquez's painting of Las Meninas. He also based paintings on works by Goya, Poussin, Manet, Courbet and Delacroix. Those influences are evident in this painting. The inclusion of a Moroccan brazier in the lower left, instantly recalls Delacroix (and Matisse's studio scenes). The organization of the space recalls Las Meninas and the placement of a blank canvas at the very center of the studio is a reference to Gustave Courbet, The Artist's Studio (1855). (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-PICASSO-FAFFM-SL C-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Studio in La Californie