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Picasso and the foundry of Emile Robecchi during the Second World War
05/2020 | 1406 | 162
Pages: 420-431
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Author:
Finn, Clare (Finn, Clare)
Subjects
artists:
Picasso, Pablo
artists:
Fenosa, Apel.les / Brassaï
media:
Bronzes / Plaster
places:
Paris
subjects:
French art / Robecchi, Emile / Sculpture / Casts (sculpture) / Account books / Payments
subjects:
Second World War
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Picasso with La femme en robe longue (Woman in a long dress) and Tête casquée (Head of a warrior), by Robert Capa. 1944. Photograph. (  Robert Capa and International Center of Photography / Magnum Photos).
Attributed works:
2. Tête de taureau (Head of a bull), by Picasso. Photographed by Brassa  in 1931. Repr. in D.-H. Kahnweiler: Les Sculptures de Picasso, Paris 1948.
Attributed works:
3. Tête de mort (Death’s head), by Picasso. 1941. Bronze and copper, 25 by 21 by 31 cm. (Musée national Picasso-Paris;   Photo Josse / Bridgeman Images; DACS, London 2020).
Attributed works:
4. Picasso with L’orateur (The orator), photographed in his studio on rue des Grands-Augustines, Paris, in 1939, by Brassaï. (Repr. in Brassa : Conversations avec Picasso, London 1967, pp.70–71, ill. 16).
Attributed works:
5. Musicians for a Nativity/manger, by Appel.les Fenosa. 1941. Bronze, 17 by 12.3 by 11 cm. (Fundacio Fenosa, El Vendrell, Tarragona).
Attributed works:
6. Le chat accroupi (Crouching cat), by Picasso. 1943. Plaster, length 51.4 cm. (Repr. in D.-H. Kahnweiler: Les Sculptures de Picasso, Paris 1948, no.212).
Attributed works:
7. Picasso’s studio on rue des Grands-Augustines, Paris, photographed in 1944 shortly after the Liberation, with Man with sheep in plaster on the left, Cat in bronze in the centre and Crouching cat in plaster on the right, by Henri Cartier-Bresson. 1944. (  Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos).
Attributed works:
8. Cover for Les Sculptures de Picasso (1948), showing Le Main Droit de Picasso, by Brassaï.