Pablo Picasso : “max Jacob In An Armchair”
PabloPicasso (1881–1973) : “Max Jacob in an Armchair,” facsimile printon very thin and fragile paper, 37.5 x 27.5 cm, in two tones:gray-green for Picasso’s drawing and black for Max’s handwritten poemJacob’s handwritten poem “The Struck Archangel.”
“Museum-style” mounting in aFlorentine Baroque frame made of carved wood and gilded with gold leaf, 51 × 42 cm (stampedgilding).
References : Professor Enrique Mallen’s Online Picasso Project 17: 430 (erroneous lylisted as 1917)
Picasso Museum, Paris: 2003.1
Copy 4/30 bearing the handwritten signatures of Picasso and Max Jacob,traces of creases and a restored tear at the top of the sheet that can be concealed bya tighter mount, though this would obscure the numbering.
A museum-quality restoration has preserved this rare example of the deep friendshipthat bound the artist and the poet: their meeting dates back to Picasso’s early years in Paris, when Max Jacob taught him French andeven shared a room with him for a time in Montparnasse.
Of Jewish origin, the poet had a vision in 1909 that led him to convert to Catholicism in 1914.
The drawing, created in Picasso’s new studio in Montrouge in November1916, was thus printed in an edition of 30 numbered copies and sold to benefit Jacob (perhaps to finance the publication of *Le Cornet à dés*) in December on the occasion of Paul Dermée’s lecture on the poet at the Salle Huygens, the legendary venue where the first joint exhibition by Picasso, Ortiz de Zaratte, Moïse Kisling, Matisse, and Modigliani—among others— took place !
The Musée Picasso in Paris owns copy 13/30.
Please feel free to ask us for photos or additional information by email or phone.
More photos and many other items are available in our Pau store and on our Proantic website.
“Museum-style” mounting in aFlorentine Baroque frame made of carved wood and gilded with gold leaf, 51 × 42 cm (stampedgilding).
References : Professor Enrique Mallen’s Online Picasso Project 17: 430 (erroneous lylisted as 1917)
Picasso Museum, Paris: 2003.1
Copy 4/30 bearing the handwritten signatures of Picasso and Max Jacob,traces of creases and a restored tear at the top of the sheet that can be concealed bya tighter mount, though this would obscure the numbering.
A museum-quality restoration has preserved this rare example of the deep friendshipthat bound the artist and the poet: their meeting dates back to Picasso’s early years in Paris, when Max Jacob taught him French andeven shared a room with him for a time in Montparnasse.
Of Jewish origin, the poet had a vision in 1909 that led him to convert to Catholicism in 1914.
The drawing, created in Picasso’s new studio in Montrouge in November1916, was thus printed in an edition of 30 numbered copies and sold to benefit Jacob (perhaps to finance the publication of *Le Cornet à dés*) in December on the occasion of Paul Dermée’s lecture on the poet at the Salle Huygens, the legendary venue where the first joint exhibition by Picasso, Ortiz de Zaratte, Moïse Kisling, Matisse, and Modigliani—among others— took place !
The Musée Picasso in Paris owns copy 13/30.
Please feel free to ask us for photos or additional information by email or phone.
More photos and many other items are available in our Pau store and on our Proantic website.
8 300 €
Period: 20th century
Style: Modern Art
Condition: Fully restored in our whorkshop
Reference (ID): 1806652
Availability: In stock
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