Lilja Brik, muse of Vladimir Mayakovsky, sister of Elsa Triolet, at a private viewing of his Pablo Picasso's llustrations in the Matarasso gallery in Nice. Behind left with dark hat Nadine Léger, wife of Fernand Léger, left Cocteau, Thorez in the foreground. Exposition "Pablo Picasso. Un Demi-Siècle de Livres Illustrés". Galerie H. Matarasso. 21.12.1956-31.1.1957.
Nice 1956. - Photo by Edward Quinn

Lilja Brik, muse of Vladimir Mayakovsky, sister of Elsa Triolet, at a private viewing of his Pablo Picasso's llustrations in the Matarasso gallery in Nice. Behind left with dark hat Nadine Léger, wife of Fernand Léger, left Cocteau, Thorez in the foreground. Exposition "Pablo Picasso. Un Demi-Siècle de Livres Illustrés". Galerie H. Matarasso. 21.12.1956-31.1.1957. Nice 1956.

Lilja Brik, muse of Vladimir Mayakovsky, looks directly toward the camera with a contemplative expression during a private viewing at the Galerie H. Matarasso in Nice in 1956. The event celebrated the exhibition "Pablo Picasso. Un Demi-Siècle de Livres Illustrés." Framed from behind Maurice Thorez in the foreground, the candid photograph also captures Jean Cocteau in profile to the left and, behind him, Nadine Léger, wife of Fernand Léger, wearing a dark hat.


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