Maurice Thorez with Louis Aragon, his wife, famous lady communist Elsa Triolet and her older sister Lilja Brik, muse of Vladimir Maykovsky, at a private viewing of Pablo Picasso's book illustrations in the Matarasso gallery in Nice. "Pablo Picasso. Un Demi-Siècle de Livres Illustrés". Galerie H. Matarasso. 21.12.1956-31.1.1957. Nice 1956.
French Communist Party leader Maurice Thorez smiles in the foreground, his hands resting on a cane during a private viewing of Picasso's book illustrations at the Matarasso gallery. Behind him, writer Louis Aragon looks on with an amused expression, accompanied by his wife, the writer Elsa Triolet, and her older sister Lilja Brik, muse of Vladimir Mayakovsky. One of the women wears a dark fur coat and a light, veiled hat. The group is captured in a candid moment in the gallery corridor. Nice, 1956.
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