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Lot Essay
Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this drawing.
Maya Widmaier-Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this drawing.
Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948) was the first Spanish language avant-garde poet and father of the early modernist literary movement "Creacionismo" and its offshoot "Ultraísmo". As a prominant member of the literary vanguard in Paris, Madrid and his native Santiago, Chile, his poems were notable for their juxtapositions of seemingly random words that explored the sources of poetic inspiration. As early as 1912 he discovered the calligram in advance of his Parisian contemporaries, and in 1916 he left Santiago for Paris. He immersed himself in Paris avant-garde, and collaborated with Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Tristan Tzara, André Breton and Pierre Reverdy on the literary review "Nord-Sud." Through them he came to know Pablo Picasso, Joaquin Torres-García, Juan Gris, Jean Arp, each of whom drew his portrait, as well as Paul Dermée, Diego Rivera, Jean Cocteau and Jacques Lipchitz. He traveled frequently between Europe and Chile and his work is credited with laying the foundation for experimentation in later Latin-American poetry.
Maya Widmaier-Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this drawing.
Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948) was the first Spanish language avant-garde poet and father of the early modernist literary movement "Creacionismo" and its offshoot "Ultraísmo". As a prominant member of the literary vanguard in Paris, Madrid and his native Santiago, Chile, his poems were notable for their juxtapositions of seemingly random words that explored the sources of poetic inspiration. As early as 1912 he discovered the calligram in advance of his Parisian contemporaries, and in 1916 he left Santiago for Paris. He immersed himself in Paris avant-garde, and collaborated with Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Tristan Tzara, André Breton and Pierre Reverdy on the literary review "Nord-Sud." Through them he came to know Pablo Picasso, Joaquin Torres-García, Juan Gris, Jean Arp, each of whom drew his portrait, as well as Paul Dermée, Diego Rivera, Jean Cocteau and Jacques Lipchitz. He traveled frequently between Europe and Chile and his work is credited with laying the foundation for experimentation in later Latin-American poetry.