Easter Island Palm

At the exhibition there was also a photo of Brassaï from the statue and above it lay a wood wrist and a palm according to Brassaï from Easter Island!

"Picasso took a dressmaker's mannequin from the turn of the 20th and added a separate mannequin of her own and two branches, one from Easter Island (given to him by the merchant Pierre Loëb), and another more crude one, again designed by himself: "The woman in a long dress" was later either demolished or demolished, but luckily not before a casting of bronce had been made by her.

" While visiting the Musée du Trocadéro, Picasso seems to be interested in the arts of Oceania, while his relationship with the surrealist movement between 1920 and 1940 resulted in his making three-dimensional works from various daily items (such as the bike / bull's head) and finally the "woman in a long dress" of 1943.

Picasso: "Bull's Easter Island Branch" (1942). Studio of the Grands-Augustins, Paris. Picasso Museum, Paris. Picture Brassaï. Substantial attention was given to the topic by two of us (CO & MO) as we recalled seeing a bad photograph of what is clearly the same branch and the same hands in Macmillan Brown's 1924 edition (1924:facing p. 142 & faceing- p. 164).

Heerdahl had noticed the presence of this subject and referred to it in his large Easter Island work: "The Easter Island Art": Heyerdahl was completely oblivious to the later story of this property and its possessions and use by Picasso as an artist. Occupation of "The Woman in a Long Dress", with the Easter Island branch emphasized.

However, a somewhat rarer book (owned by CO & MO) provided the lack ing element in history, as described by Loëb himself (Loëb 1945:29-30, translated by the authors): "I discovered a showcase full of Easter Island fetishes: there were small figures of beards, with striking cheek bones and ridges, skeleton-like, slightly bent, bent forward and incredible sadness.

One was an almost life-size forehead; two small rigid, stunted branches developed from the area where the ear normally occurs. He had clearly followed the draft of the residual limb, which had been lifted, or, if it is the truth that there are no branches on the island, from some rubble of a ship found on the water.

And the second one was a palm rest. Your side bent to the side, your hands are brief, with your finger.....