Fusain sur toile "Autoportrait" du 22 mars 1938

2013

Photographie

Tirage numérique sur papier Inkjet Gold Fibre Silk d'après le négatif original

60 x 50 cm

"One morning late in the spring of 1961, while photographing Picasso's private collection of his own work . . . I came upon a gaunt self-portrait of the artist. It was just stark charcoal on canvas, almost skeletal, nearly life-size, dated 22 March, 1938, and totally unknown . . . Like nearly all of Picasso's hidden canvases, it was veiled under decades of dust that had to be cleaned away before I could use my color cameras. I swept it with a feather duster--and my heart nearly burst! The charcoal had never been fixed. His face was now little more than a faint tracing seen through smeared charcoal and dust . . . this still secret self-portrait was ruined." Goodbye Picasso, p. 2

Don de David Douglas Duncan en 2014

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Œuvre

David Douglas Duncan

Musée national Picasso-Paris