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[Pablo PICASSO]

Michel SIMA

Photographie originale de Pablo Picasso dans son atelier avec une de ses céramiques

s.d. [vers 1948], Photographie : 17,3x21,3cm ; Feuille 18x24cm , une feuille.

n.d. [around 1948], Photograph: 17.3 x 21.3cm; Leaf: 18 x 24cm, one leaf.

Rare original photograph of Pablo Picasso turning towards one of his ceramic creations, taken by Michel Sima.
Contemporary silver print. Pencil inscription on the back. Very light scratch on the surface, not affecting the image.

“In September 1946, Pablo Picasso set up his workshop in the attic of the Château Grimaldi in Antibes, in a former “guards room” to which the curator Romuald Dor de la Souchère gave him the keys so that he could work there as he pleased. It is the artist Michel Sima, sculptor and photographer, who introduced the two men. Arriving from his native Poland in 1929, Sima, whose real name was Michel Smajewki, met Picasso in Paris, where he frequented the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and was the pupil of Zadkine. From mid-September to mid-November 1946 in Antibes, then from 1947-48 and until the beginning of the 50's in Vallauris, Sima regularly photographed Picasso, who willingly posed for the camera - alone or with his companion Françoise Gilot, in front of completed works or those in progress, staring at the lens, or on the contrary, focusing on his work” (Anne de Staël, L'Atelier des combles, 2009). 

Sublime chiaroscuro shot of the master contemplating his work.
Provenance: Paul Destribats collection.
 

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