The subject of the present lot displays the influence of Picasso’s happy days in the mid-50s spent on the beach at Golf Juan, he had not long moved with Jacqueline to La Californie and was still somewhat open to the stream of visitors, some famous friends, some new admirers tagging along in the hope of a minute with him. He enjoyed going out for a drive around Cannes, stopping to take an aperitif in one of the many cafés and watch the divers on the pier shimmering against the setting sun. The technique here of black on white gives the impression of a fleeting brushstroke of ink on paper, as if captured there in the sun, while the white on black adds a sense of melancholy and mood.
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