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, 1959, Pablo Picasso leans over a cluttered table to comment on a deluxe edition of poems by Pierre Reverdy that he illustrated. He points to a page as an absorbed group looks on: publisher Madame Weill, writer Michel Leiris, his wife and gallery owner Louise Leiris, publisher André Weill, and Picasso’s son, Paulo. The scene, illuminated by light from large windows, captures a moment of focused, collaborative study around the open book displaying abstract, organic shapes.

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

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Books, Writers

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