Pablo Picasso looks at the copy of a deluxe edition of a book of poems by Pierre Reverdy, for which he has made the illustrations. Gathered around him as he comments on the book are Madame Weill, a Paris publisher, the writer Michel Leiris, his wife Louise Leiris, owner with Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler of the Leiris Gallery Paris, André Weill, publisher of some deluxe editions of Pablo Picasso's work and Paulo Picasso. La Californie, Cannes 1959.

At his villa La Californie in Cannes, Pablo Picasso examines a deluxe edition of poems by Pierre Reverdy that he illustrated. Gathered around him are publisher Madame Weill, writer Michel Leiris and his wife Louise, publisher André Weill, and the artist’s son, Paulo Picasso. As the group listens to Picasso’s comments, one woman points to a detail in the book of abstract art. Paulo, an unlit cigarette between his lips, leans on a chair to observe. Natural light from a large window illuminates the intent group. 1959.

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"Dédicace de Reverdy (Pierre Reverdy, Le Chant des morts)"

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Books, Writers

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