Amitié franco-soviétique, France-URSS

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Amitié franco-soviétique, France-URSS
signed 'Picasso' (lower right); signed again in Russian and dated 'Picasso 10.10.56.' (lower left)
brush and ink on paper
14 5/8 x 10 5/8 in. (37.1 x 27 cm.)
Drawn on 10 October 1956

Provenance

Collection Espace Marx, Lille.
Private collection, Europe, by 1979, and thence by descent to the present owners.

Literature

France URSS, no. 142, July 1957, p. 33 (illustrated).
Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Fifties II, 1956-1959, San Francisco, 2000, no. 56-258 (a), p. 85 (illustrated).
G. R. Utley, Picasso, The Communist Years, New Haven, 2000, p. 200 (reproduced as the journal illustration).
G. Gosselin, Picasso et la presse, Paris, 2000, no. 241, p. 163 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

Maya Widmaier-Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

In October 1956 in Moscow, the first important Picasso exhibition since the revolution opened. The exhibition was held to mark Picasso's 75th birthday and organised by the club 'The Friends of Science and French Culture', and the USSR Academy of Fine Arts. The show presented works from the Soviet museums, alongside other works sent by Picasso, including this drawing for the November 1956 issue of 'France-URSS' magazine.

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