Pablo Picasso - Autograph Postcard Sent To Photographer Raymond Fabre In 1962

Postcard reproducing Lunches II, a work from numerous drawings and paintings produced between 1959 and 1961, inspired by Manet's famous Déjeuner sur l'herbe. Published in 1962 by Éditions Cercle d'Art, it was sent by Pablo Picasso to his friend and photographer Raymond Fabre in December of the same year. Autograph signature in red pencil, above a wavelet which one imagines to be the correspondence reduced to its simplest expression, genius of an artist at the height of his glory who does not shy away from the chore of postcards while knowing how to avoid loss of inspiration. The postmark indicates a shipment from Cannes-Mimont on December 3, 1962. The recipient's address is in another hand, perhaps that of Jacqueline Roque, Picasso's last wife. Parisian by birth, the photographer Raymond Fabre set up his studio at 16, rue de l'Ange in Perpignan in 1951, on the ground floor of the Hôtel de Lazerme, where Picasso regularly stayed. He took numerous photos of the master during his visits between 1953 and 1955, including the barretina portrait. Éditions Cercle d'Art, supported in 1949 by Picasso since he encouraged his friend Charles Feld in their creation, allowed the distribution of his work on multiple media thanks to the new process of offset printing. Double-sided mounting in a black felt mat. Format: height 21.5 cm - width 32.5 cm. Very good state of conservation.