
Marie Cuttoli, close friend and collector of Pablo Picasso's works and ?. Unveiling of mural "The Fall of Icarus" ("La chute d'Icare") for the conference hall of UNESCO building in Paris. The mural is made up of forty wooden panels. Initially titled "The Forces of Life and the Spirit Triumphing over Evil", the composition was renamed in 1958 by George Salles, who preferred the current title, "The Fall of Icarus" ("La chute d'Icare"). Vallauris, 29 March 1958.
Marie Cuttoli, a close friend and collector of Pablo Picasso's works, is pictured in conversation with an unidentified man. Wearing a hat, distinctive dark-rimmed glasses, and a pearl necklace, she stands opposite the man, who wears a textured overcoat and a small hoop earring. The photograph was taken in Vallauris on 29 March 1958, during the unveiling of Picasso's mural "The Fall of Icarus," a work in forty wooden panels created for the UNESCO building in Paris.
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