Bidspirit auction | ROQUE JACQUELINE: (1926-1986)

ROQUE JACQUELINE: (1926-1986) - ROQUE JACQUELINE: (1926-1986) French model, muse and the second wife of Pablo Picasso from 1961. A.L.S., Jacqueline, one page, slim 4to, n.p., n.d., to [Max Pellequer], in French. Roque informs her correspondent ´Pablo travaille. Il pleut. Les fauteuils de notre chère Francine sont bien jolis´ (Translation: ´Pablo is working. It’s raining. Our dear Francine’s armchairs are really lovely´ ) and concludes by sending her love. A few very minor, light creases, VG Max Pellequer (1903-1973) French banker and art collector who would become Pablo 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. In 1920 Pellequer married Francine Level (1897-1984), the niece of the dealer and businessman André Level.