Pablo Picasso shows a sketchbook (drawing 17.7.1959.) and the first copy of a deluxe edition of a book of poems by Pierre Reverdy, for which he has made the illustrations. Louise Leiris, owner with Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler of the Leiris Gallery Paris. La Californie, Cannes 1959.
In the art-filled studio of his villa La Californie, Pablo Picasso presents a sketchbook drawing to Louise Leiris, owner of the Parisian Galerie Leiris. With a gentle smile and her arms crossed, she observes the work he holds. On a table in the foreground lies the first deluxe edition of poems by Pierre Reverdy, for which Picasso created the illustrations. This candid photograph from 1959 captures an intimate moment of creative exchange, with a modernist painting and a mandolin visible on the wall behind them.
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Artworks:
- "Picador", 1959. Zervos.XVIII:528
- "Pierre Reverdy, Le Chant des morts", 1948
- "Intérieur avec femme dans un rocking-chair", Westheider:32
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