Pablo Picasso showing a linoblock to Edouard Pignon. La Californie, Cannes 1959.

In his villa La Californie in Cannes, Pablo Picasso, a cigarette in his mouth, presents a linoblock to fellow artist Edouard Pignon in 1959. Seated in a simple wooden chair, Pignon leans forward to intently examine the stylized portrait. The room, dense with canvases, books, and furniture, is a testament to the artist’s creative life, captured here in a moment of quiet appraisal between the two men.

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Linoblock for "Portrait de jeune fille II (d'apres Cranach le Jeune)", 1958. Geiser/Baer:1053.I

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