And Picasso spoke. The only television interview with the great painter dates from 1966. He is 85 years old. Laughing, master of dialogue, he punctuates his short sentences with "isn't it!" and very quickly returns the ball to his interlocutor, like a chess player who does not intend to reveal himself. The accent is Spanish, the subject is neat, almost Guitry. The painter describes his works
"as Memories that one writes oneself"
, each with a specific intention, corresponding to a given period. Black eye and profile so recognizable, he listens to the master's questions, their bombastic respect, with a certain reluctance, and takes care of his image in front of the camera in this ephemeral time that is life. A mixture of distance and warmth. Everything Picasso can be seen and read in his work.
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Bust of a man writing
, a self-portrait painted in Mougins on July 7, 1971, which represents the artist at work and which is nothing more than a giant eye, wide open to the world to be grasped.
Between September 1970 ...
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