These amazing photographs offer intimate views of Pablo Picasso worked in the various studios and highlight his practices and numerous techniques.
The images, taken from between the 1940s and ’60s by different photographers, reveal large rooms cluttered with paintings, sculptures, and drawings — some still in progress — that speak to the sheer volume of art-making their walls witnessed as well as to the variety of material with which Picasso worked.
These photos highlight the efforts behind these works and suggest the time over which they were made. We typically only see Picasso’s finished works, but the circumstances under which they were produced are just as significant to understanding their creator.
The images, taken from between the 1940s and ’60s by different photographers, reveal large rooms cluttered with paintings, sculptures, and drawings — some still in progress — that speak to the sheer volume of art-making their walls witnessed as well as to the variety of material with which Picasso worked.
These photos highlight the efforts behind these works and suggest the time over which they were made. We typically only see Picasso’s finished works, but the circumstances under which they were produced are just as significant to understanding their creator.