Details
PICASSO, PABLO (1881-1973). Photograph inscribed and signed ("Picasso"), n.p., n.d. [circa 1945]. 175 x 117 mm. (6 7/8 x 4½ in.) including margins. A half-length portrait, inscribed on the lower margin: "Pour Pierre Bertrand Picasso."
"The most prodigious talent of the twentieth century came from his native Spain to settle in Paris at the turn of the century, and art and the art world were never the same again. His companion is writer Pierre Bertrand, to whom the photo is inscribed"--W.M.
"The most prodigious talent of the twentieth century came from his native Spain to settle in Paris at the turn of the century, and art and the art world were never the same again. His companion is writer Pierre Bertrand, to whom the photo is inscribed"--W.M.
Provenance
The Cornelius Greenway Collection (sale, Part II, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 4 May 1971, lot 201).