Pablo Picasso
artist
Spanish painter and sculptor
The collaboration
From their meeting, in 1954, come the Flamenco, the Owl, which Egidio simply calls the Amphora, and a friendship that lasts until Picasso’s death, in 1973.
Spurred on by Picasso, Egidio renews the working of glass. After years of trials he obtains a blown glass with thick, compact walls, instead of thin and fragile ones, that yields to geometric forms: from it come the Water Carrier and the Precious Amphora.
The themes
Together they take up sexuality, motherhood, nature and myth: out of the glowing glass take shape nymphs, fauns, centaurs, bulls and condors, such as the Nymph, the Faun and Kid and the Centaur Head.