Poster - Pablo Picasso, L'Atelier De La Californie

Printed on luxury 170gsm Satin Art paper
Standard A2 in size measuring 42 x 59.4cm
Made in Melbourne and designed exclusively for the NGV design store.

This canvas documents the ornate interior of Picasso’s studio at La Californie, the nineteenth-century villa in Cannes that Picasso purchased in 1955. Unlike many of the other studio scenes produced by Picasso around this time, The studio at La Californie is landscape in format, allowing him to capture the enormity of the large main salon. Picasso has also inscribed into this painting many of the unique details of the space, including the ornate arched window (centre right) and a Moroccan brazier (lower left). The work’s highly decorative nature was also influenced by the interiors of Henri Matisse, whose practice Picasso followed closely.

Pablo Picasso
Spanish 1881–1973
The studio at La Californie (L’Atelier de La
Californie) 30 March 1956 (detail)
oil on canvas
114.0 x 146.0 cm
Musée national Picasso-Paris
Donated in lieu of tax, 1979
© Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency,
2022
Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national
Picasso-Paris) / Mathieu Rabeau