Auction Date:2010 Aug 11 @ 22:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Rare ALS in French, signed “Picasso,” two pages, 6 x 7.25, September 1, 1910. Letter to a gentleman. In full (translated): “I have received your letter in Spain. I am returning to Paris soon. I am thinking of beginning les Aravaux for your library. The plan that you have sent me is very clear. I will be very happy to know your friend the painter Davies.” Central horizontal mailing fold and small paperclip impression to top edge, otherwise fine condition.
Picasso had spent the summer of 1910 in Spain, where he used part of the time working on etchings that he had promised to create to illustrate a book of poetry by French writer Max Jacob, which Paris art gallery owner Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler planned to publish. Jacob was undoubtedly the recipient of this correspondence, based on the content and the reference to “Davies”—likely American painter Arthur Bowen Davies, who had been experimenting in Cubist paintings at that time. A unique connection between a Cubist like Picasso and the symbolist and surrealist movements, of which Jacob is considered a link.
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