The Mystery of Picasso

The Mystery of Picasso

Directed by	Henri-Georges Clouzot
Screenplay by	Henri-Georges Clouzot^[1]
Produced by	Henri-Georges Clouzot^[1]
Cinematography	Claude Renoir^[1]
Edited by	Henri Colpi Henri-Georges Clouzot^[1]
Music by	Georges Auric^[1]
Production company	Filmsonor^[1]
Release date	18 May 1956 (1956-05-18) (France)
Country	France^[1]

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.^[2]

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

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.

Release[]

The Mystery of Picasso was released in France on 18 May 1956.^[1] It won the Special Jury Prize at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival^[3] and was shown out of competition at the 1982 Festival.^[4]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Le Mystère Picasso". Bifi.fr (in French).
^ Klady, Leonard (March 1986). "Return of the Centaur". Film Comment. 22 (2): 20–22.
^ "Festival de Cannes: The Mystery of Picasso (In Competition)". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
^ "Festival de Cannes: The Mystery of Picasso (Out of Competition)". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-06-13.

External links[]

The Mystery of Picasso at IMDb
The Mystery of Picasso at AllMovie

show v t Films directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feature films	The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942) Le Corbeau (1943) Quai des Orfèvres (1947) Manon (1949) Miquette (1950) The Wages of Fear (1953) Les Diaboliques (1955) Les Espions (1957) La Vérité (1960) La prisonnière (1968)
Short films	Return to Life (1949, segment "Le Retour de Jean")
Documentaries	The Mystery of Picasso (1956)
Other projects	All for Love (1933) Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (1964)

show v t 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
Paintings	Le petit picador jaune (1889) Science and Charity (1897) Child with a Dove (1901) La Gommeuse (1901) Yo, Picasso (1901) The Blue Room (1901) Femme aux Bras Croisés (1901-02) The Old Guitarist (1903) La Vie (1903) Portrait of Angel Fernández de Soto (1903) Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904) The Actor (1904-1905) Woman Ironing (1904) Girl in a Chemise (c.1905) Acrobat and Young Harlequin (1905) Family of Saltimbanques (1905) Garçon à la pipe (1905) Girl on a Ball (1905) Les Noces de Pierrette (1905) Au Lapin Agile (1905) Young Girl with a Flower Basket (1905) Famille d'acrobates avec singe (1905) Boy Leading a Horse (1905–06) Portrait of Gertrude Stein (1905–06) Head of a Young Woman (1906) Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) Brick Factory at Tortosa (1909) Portrait of Ambroise Vollard (1910) Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (1910) The Accordionist (1911) Le pigeon aux petits pois (1911) La Coiffeuse (1911) Violon et raisins (1912) Bottle, Glass, Fork (1912) Ma Jolie (1912) Ma Jolie (1914) Three Musicians (1921) Reading the Letter (c. 1921) The Pipes of Pan (1923) The Three Dancers (1925) Woman in a Red Armchair (1929) Le Repos (1932) Girl before a Mirror (1932) La Lecture (1932) Le Rêve (1932) Nude, Green Leaves and Bust (1932) Nude in a Black Armchair (1932) Two Girls Reading (1934) Jeune Fille Endormie (1935) Guernica (1937) Portrait of Dora Maar (1937) Woman in Hat and Fur Collar (1937) The Weeping Woman (1937) Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter) (1937) Maya with Doll (1938) Dora Maar au Chat (1941) The Charnel House (1944–1945) Nature morte au poron (1948) Massacre in Korea (1951) Les Femmes d'Alger series (1955) Las Meninas (1957) The Fall of Icarus (1958) Jacqueline (1961) Femme au Chien (1962)
Sculptures	Bust of a Woman (Marie-Thérèse) (1931) Tete de femme (Dora Maar) (1941) Bull's Head (1942) Baboon and Young (1951) Chicago Picasso (1967) Sylvette (1970)
Etchings	Vollard Suite (1930–1937) Minotaur Kneeling over Sleeping Girl (1933) Minotauromachy (1935) The Dream and Lie of Franco (1937) 347 Series (1968)
Drawings	Don Quixote (1955) Toros y toreros (1961)
Lithographs	Dove (1949)
Plays	Desire Caught by the Tail (c. 1941) The Four Little Girls (c. 1947–48)
Poetry	Picasso's poetry
Ballet designs	Picasso and the Ballets Russes Parade The Three-Cornered Hat Pulcinella Le Train Bleu Mercure
Museums	Musée Picasso (Paris) Musée Picasso (Antibes) Museu Picasso (Barcelona) Museo Picasso Málaga (Malaga) Museo Casa Natal (Malaga)
Partners	Fernande Olivier Marie-Thérèse Walter Dora Maar Françoise Gilot Geneviève Laporte
Family	Olga Khokhlova (first wife) Jacqueline Roque (second wife) Maya Widmaier-Picasso (daughter) Claude Picasso (son) Paloma Picasso (daughter) Diana Widmaier Picasso (granddaughter) Marina Picasso (granddaughter) Bernard Ruiz-Picasso (grandson) José Ruiz y Blasco (father)
Films and television about	Visit to Picasso (1949) Guernica (1950) The Mystery of Picasso (1956) The Adventures of Picasso (1978) Surviving Picasso (1996) Picasso: Magic, Sex & Death (2001) Modigliani (2004) Genius (2018 TV series)
Related	Carles Casagemas Carl Nesjar Lydia Corbett Lump (dog) Bateau-Lavoir Château of Vauvenargues Villa La Californie Fundación Picasso Picasso. In the heart of darkness (1939-1945) (2019-2020 exhibition) Picasso & Lump (2006 book) Picasso referendum of Basel Regjeringskvartalet murals Theft of The Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria Portrait of Pablo Picasso (1915 painting) "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso" (1924 poem) Woman, Bird, Star (Homage to Pablo Picasso) (1973 painting) Picasso at the Lapin Agile (1993 play)

show v t Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize
1946–1973	The Battle of the Rails (1946) All About Eve (1951) We Are All Murderers (1952) Knave of Hearts (1954) Lost Continent (1955) The Mystery of Picasso (1956) Kanał / The Seventh Seal (1957) Mon Oncle (1958) Stars (1959) L'Avventura / Odd Obsession (1960) Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) The Trial of Joan of Arc / L'Eclisse (1962) Harakiri / The Cassandra Cat (1963) Woman in the Dunes (1964) Kwaidan (1965) Alfie (1966) Z (1969) The Falcons / The Strawberry Statement (1970) Love / Joe Hill (1971) Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) The Hourglass Sanatorium / The Invitation (1973)
1980–2000	The Constant Factor (1980) Kharij (1983) Colonel Redl (1985) Thérèse (1986) Yeelen / Shinran: Path to Purity (1987) A Short Film About Killing (1988) Jesus of Montreal (1989) Hidden Agenda (1990) Europa / Out of Life (1991) Dream of Light / An Independent Life (1992) The Puppetmaster / Raining Stones (1993) La Reine Margot (1994) Don't Forget You're Going to Die / Carrington (1995) Crash (1996) Western (1997) Class Trip / Festen (1998) The Letter (1999) Blackboards / Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
2002–present	Divine Intervention (2002) At Five in the Afternoon (2003) Tropical Malady (2004) Shanghai Dreams (2005) Red Road (2006) Persepolis / Silent Light (2007) Il Divo (2008) Thirst / Fish Tank (2009) A Screaming Man (2010) Polisse (2011) The Angels' Share (2012) Like Father, Like Son (2013) Mommy / Goodbye to Language (2014) The Lobster (2015) American Honey (2016) Loveless (2017) Capernaum (2018) Bacurau / Les Misérables (2019) Ahed's Knee / Memoria (2021)

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