PICASSO, Pablo; HALÁSZ, Gyula; BRASSAÏ.

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Un apres-midi avec Picasso 85 ans. (An Afternoon with Picasso at 85). A superb unpublished and heavily corrected manuscript in French, in which Brassaï recounts a visit to Picasso, a long-standing friend, at his home near Cannes. Brassaï, who photographed much of Picasso's work in the 1940s, published Conversations with Picasso in 1964, creating an intimate portrait of the artist through an account of their friendship and artistic collaboration, and recording each of their meetings in minute detail. Picasso said of the volume, "Read this book if you want to understand me."Written in a similar style, this account records an afternoon during which Picasso speaks about his nostalgia for his former studios, his health, his enthusiasm for the recently invented felt-tip pen, his opinion of his own writings, his relationship with his wife Jacqueline, and his views on feminism. Though unmarked as such, the manuscript comes from the collection of Brassaï's close friend and colleague, the photographer Stefan Lorant, founder of Picture Post, the pioneering pictorial magazine.

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