Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) d'après

Lot 40
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12000 - 15000 EUR
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Result : 21 760EUR
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) d'après
Profile of Jacqueline, 1956 Medallion in gold, 23 carats, numbered 7/20 Diam. 5 cm Weight: 40 g Provenance: François and Pierre Hugo: - François and Pierre Hugo - Private collection since 1977 "Mom was very friendly with Jacqueline, they were practically the same age, I knew her in the 1960s, I was not old... I have the memory of a woman, sweet and madly in love with a very jealous Picasso! She contributed a lot to push Pablo to make more creations for my father François Hugo and it is thanks to her that the medallions were born. Indeed, when she saw the first silver dishes made by Picasso and my father, she said to her man "it's a bit big to be worn by a woman" and François Hugo replied "we only have to make a medallion of the same design! ” We still have many lovely letters from her and Pablo that remind me of that beautiful time." Pierre Hugo November 2021 It was in Vallauris, in the Madoura ceramics workshop, with which Picasso had been working since 1946, that he met her. She was 26 years old, he 71. It was love at first sight for the artist, who saw in her the archetypes of Mediterranean beauty: sensual sculptural body, dark hair gathered in a bun, jet eyes. She reminded him of one of the odalisques in Delacroix's famous painting "The Women of Algiers". "She has the gift of becoming a painting to an unimaginable degree" said Pablo Picasso when speaking of his last wife and muse, Jacqueline.
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