Bidspirit auction | PICASSO PABLO: (1881-1973)

PICASSO PABLO: (1881-1973) - PICASSO PABLO: (1881-1973) Spanish painter, a co-founder of the Cubist movement. A.L.S., Picasso , one page, 4to, Vallauris (Cote d´Azur), 2nd May 1950, to Max [Pellequer] ( ´Mon cher Max´ ), in French. Picasso, in the second letter of the day that he has written to Pellequer, states ´ Je viens de recevoir les recus des cheques envoyes a ces messieurs des contributions. Je vous les envoi. Il fait un temps d´ete. Je travaille´ (Translation: ´I've just received the receipts for the cheques sent to these gentlemen from the tax department. I am sending them to you. The weather is summery. I am working´ ). VG Max Pellequer - French banker and art collector who would become Picasso´s private banker, financial adviser and close friend. Pellequer assembled an important collection of artworks in the 1920s and 1930s which included a number of significant early pieces by Picasso, as well as works by Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro and others. Almost two hundred letters from Pellequer to Picasso are preserved in the Musee National Picasso in Paris. Picasso had come to live in Vallauris in 1948 and stayed in the seaside commune until 1955. During this time he created a great number of sculptures and paintings, including his mural War and Peace , and also developed a fascination for the techniques of ceramics and linocuts.