Art Of The Day Weekly
#361 - from 23 October 2014 to 29 October 2014
David Douglas Duncan, Picasso making a plate with a fish bone, La Californie, April 1957. Modern digital ink flow print. Donación David Douglas Duncan, 2013. © David Douglas Duncan 2014. © Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid 2014
Duncan's eye
BARCELONA – Among the photographers who immortalised Picasso, David Douglas Duncan, 98 years old, is the eldest one still alive. After covering the combats in the Pacific and then the Korean War, the encounter in 1956 with Picasso was a radical change for him. Their friendship, marked by the great freedom Picasso allowed him to have, lasted until the death of the latter in 1973. For the 50th anniversary of the Picasso Museum in Barcelona in 2013, Duncan donated 161 photographs. They cover the last years, the “Jacqueline years » at Mougins: a lot of ceramics and engravings, a peaceful harmony with his children Claude and Paloma (prior to the brutal separation from their mother Françoise Gilot when she published Life with Picasso in 1964), the meals, the paintings, the walks in the garden.
• La Donación Douglas Duncan at the Museo Picasso in Barcelona, from 2 October 2014 to 11 January 2015.