The Mystery of Picasso

The Mystery of Picasso
Directed by	Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cinematography	Claude Renoir
Edited by	Henri Colpi
Release dates	1956 (France) 7 October 1957 (NYC)
Running time	78 mins
Country	France
Language	French

The Mystery of Picasso (French: Le mystère Picasso) is a 1956 French documentary film about the painter Pablo Picasso, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, and showing Picasso in the act of creating paintings for the camera. Most of the paintings were subsequently destroyed so that they would only exist on film, though some may have survived.^[1]

The film begins with Picasso creating simple marker drawings in black and white, gradually progressing to full scale collages and oil paintings.

It won the Special Jury Prize at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival^[2] and was shown out of competition at the 1982 Festival.^[3]

This famous art movie wasn't the first documentary showing Picasso painting images on glass plates from the viewpoint of the camera. The Belgian documentary film Visit to Picasso (1949) did it almost seven years earlier.

References

External links

• The Mystery of Picasso at the Internet Movie Database
• The Mystery of Picasso at AllMovie

Pablo Picasso Periods Blue (1901–1904) Rose (1904–1906) African (1907–1909) Cubism (1910–1919) Lists of works 1889–1900 1901–1910 1911–1920 1921–1930 1931–1940 1941–1950 1951–1960 1961–1970 1971–1973 Major works Child with a Dove (1901) The Blue Room (1901) Femme aux Bras Croisés (1902) The Old Guitarist (1903) La Vie (1903) Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto (1903) Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904) The Actor (1904) Family of Saltimbanques (1905) Garçon à la pipe (1905) Les Noces de Pierrette (1905) Boy Leading a Horse (1906) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) Le pigeon aux petits pois (1911) Bottle, Glass, Fork (1912) Three Musicians (1921) Reading the Letter (c.1921) The Three Dancers (1925) Vollard Suite (1930-37) La Lecture (1932) Le Rêve (1932) Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (1932) Nude in a Black Armchair (1932) Jeune Fille Endormie (1935) Guernica (1937) The Dream and Lie of Franco (1937) Woman in Hat and Fur Collar (1937) The Weeping Woman (1937) Maya with Doll (1938) Dora Maar au Chat (1941) Bull's Head (1942) The Charnel House (c.1944-48) Tete de femme (Dora Maar) (1950s) Baboon and Young (1951) Massacre in Korea (1951) Sylvette (1954) Don Quixote (1955) Las Meninas (1957) Jacqueline (1961) Chicago Picasso (1967) Partners Fernande Olivier (1904 to 1911) Eva Gouel (1912 to her death in 1915) Olga Khokhlova (married 1918, to her death in 1955, mother of Paulo) Marie-Thérèse Walter (1927 to 1935, mother of Maya) Dora Maar (1936 to 1944) Françoise Gilot (1944 to 1953, mother of Claude and Paloma) Geneviève Laporte (during the 1950s) Jacqueline Roque (married 1961 to Picasso's death 1973) Family Paloma Picasso José Ruiz y Blasco Colleagues and friends Carlos Casagemas Marc Chagall Georges Braque Julio González Max Jacob Henri Matisse Jaime Sabartés Patrons and biographers Gertrude Stein Etta and Claribel Cone Douglas Cooper John Richardson Daniel Kahnweiler Paul Rosenberg Ambroise Vollard Museums Musée Picasso (Antibes) Museu Picasso (Barcelona) Musée Picasso (Paris) Museo Picasso Málaga (Malaga) Museo Casa Natal (Malaga) Films Van Renoir tot Picasso (1948) Visit to Picasso (1949) Guernica (1950) Picasso (1955) The Mystery of Picasso (1956) The Adventures of Picasso (1978) Surviving Picasso (1996) Picasso: Magic, Sex & Death (2001) Plays by Picasso Desire Caught by the Tail c. (1941) The Four Little Girls c. (1947-1948) Poetry by Picasso Picasso's poetry See also Fundación Picasso Blanquita Suárez Picasso and the Ballets Russes Theft of The Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria Commons Wikinews Wikiquote Wiktionary