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Lot Essay
This work is sold with a photo-certificate from Claude Ruiz-Picasso dated Le 11 mai 2005.
Hélène Parmelin (1915-1998) met Picasso in the mid 1940s and became one of his closest and life-long friends. Born in France of Russian parents, she joined the French Communist Party (F.C.P.) after the war and worked for L'humanité, the party newspaper, as a reporter and art critic first, then as an editor. While working at the newspaper she met Picasso. She supported him during his two major disputes with the F.C.P., first in 1953 when Picasso drew the portrait of Stalin, and then in 1956 during the de-Stalinization process initiated by Kruschev. During the latter, Hélène Parmelin, her husband Edouard Pignon and Picasso were among the signatories of an open 'letter of the ten' to the F.C.P.
Hélène Parmelin wrote a series of books on Picasso, in which she described Picasso's rejuvenation towards the end of his life and glorified his relationship with Jacqueline Roque.
In the autumn of 1952 in Vallauris, Picasso painted two portraits of her entitled Portrait de Madame H.P. (Zervos, vol. 15, nos. 214 & 215).
Hélène Parmelin (1915-1998) met Picasso in the mid 1940s and became one of his closest and life-long friends. Born in France of Russian parents, she joined the French Communist Party (F.C.P.) after the war and worked for L'humanité, the party newspaper, as a reporter and art critic first, then as an editor. While working at the newspaper she met Picasso. She supported him during his two major disputes with the F.C.P., first in 1953 when Picasso drew the portrait of Stalin, and then in 1956 during the de-Stalinization process initiated by Kruschev. During the latter, Hélène Parmelin, her husband Edouard Pignon and Picasso were among the signatories of an open 'letter of the ten' to the F.C.P.
Hélène Parmelin wrote a series of books on Picasso, in which she described Picasso's rejuvenation towards the end of his life and glorified his relationship with Jacqueline Roque.
In the autumn of 1952 in Vallauris, Picasso painted two portraits of her entitled Portrait de Madame H.P. (Zervos, vol. 15, nos. 214 & 215).