Transcript: Incontrare Picasso

Find the text from the film Incontrare Picassso by Luciano Emmer below in Irish and English. The film is screening as part of the exhibition Picasso: From The Studio, in the exhibition space. 

Irish text

Tugann an imlíne de vása cruthaithe ar chaschlár an photadóra léargas do Picasso ar an gcineál saothair a raibh mé ag iarraidh air a chruthú. 

Fad is a bhí an colúr á rothlú ag Picasso a bhí díreach cruthaithe ag a lámha, bhí mé ag smaoineamh ar an teideal a roghnóinn don chuntas gonta seo ar an saothar a rinne sé sa chéad leath den aois seo: “Colúr idir Dhá Chogadh”.

Tugann na hoibrithe na colúir a rinne Picasso i gcaitheamh na maidine chomh fada leis an áith. Beidh siad á mbácáil i gcomhair seacht lá agus seacht n-oíche, in éineacht leis na táirgí simplí a chruthaigh na ceardaithe: plátaí, vásaí, tíleanna.

English text

The temptation of a vase formed on the potter’s turn-table suggests to Picasso what I had desired to see him create.

While Picasso rotated the dove which his hands had just created, I reflected on the title that I wanted to give to this brief account of his work in the first half of this century: “A Dove Amidst Two Wars”.

The workers bring the doves that Picasso made during the morning to the kiln. They will bake for seven days and seven nights, together with the simple products of the artisans: plates, vases, tiles.

Credits: 

Incontrare Picasso, 2000 (revised edition) (original 1954). © Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna. © Succession Picasso / DACS, London 2025

Acknowledgements: 

The exhibition is organised by the National Gallery of Ireland in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris. 

Proudly supported by KPMG Ireland, Exhibition Partner.

The Gallery would like to thank the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport for their ongoing support.