La californie cannes picasso biography

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Pablo Picasso at La Californie, Cannes

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Irving PennAmerican

Not on view

When Penn arrived at Picasso’s house in the south of France, the artist pretended not to be home. But after Penn’s assistant climbed over the locked gate, Picasso granted the photographer ten minutes. Covering his sweat-shirt with a Spanish cape, Picasso tried to playfully deflect him. Variants of this image show how Penn patiently worked the pose, allowing the artist his costume play while progressively boring in to isolate the riveting gaze of his left eye.

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Title:Pablo Picasso at La Californie, Cannes

Artist:Irving Penn (American, Plainfield, New Jersey 1917–2009 New York)

Date:1957, printed February 1985

Medium:Platinum-palladium print

Dimensions:Image: 18 5/8 x 18 5/8 in. (47.3 x 47.3 cm.)
Sheet: 24 15/16 x 22 in. (63.3 x 55.9 cm.)
Mount: 26 x 22 in. (66 x 55.9 cm.)
Overall: 26 x 22 in. (66 x 55.9 cm.)

Classification:Photographs

Credit Line:Gift of The Irving Penn Foundation, 2021

Object Number:2021.72.36

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Villa La Californie (Damian Elwes)

Series of paintings by Damian Elwes

The Villa La Californie is a series of paintings by the English artist Damian Elwes (born 1960).^[1][2][3] They link together to describe almost the entire ground floor of the Pablo Picasso's Villa La Californie in Cannes, Southern France.

In the series, architectural forms portrayed in one painting continue into the next, thereby inferring that as the eye of the viewer moves from painting to painting that you are physically moving from room to room in the master's studio. As such, this group of paintings functions as an installation. Elwes envelops the viewer as a way of enhancing the experience of what it would have been like to be in Picasso's studio in Cannes in 1956. He has assembled all extant documentation on any and every item that Picasso surrounded himself with. These include all the notebooks, sketches, Africanmasks, works in production (such as paintings, prints, ceramics, and sculpture), as well as gifts from friends, articles of clothing and even artworks by his own children. All of these elements have been included in Elwes’ work with the goal of accurately documenting Picasso's working process. During this period in Picasso's life he was fascinated by