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, Pablo Picasso examines a deluxe edition of poems by Pierre Reverdy for which he created the illustrations. Leaning over the open book, he comments on the work to an attentive group. Gathered around are publishers Madame Weill and André Weill, writer Michel Leiris and his wife Louise, and Picasso’s son, Paulo, who observes with a cigarette in his mouth. The focused group reviews a page displaying a series of dark, organic shapes in a moment of serious artistic collaboration, 1959.

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

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Books, Writers

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