Dec15

‘the great artist is the simplifier.’ vincent van gogh

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‘pere noel’

picasso created this when he was 78  years old

to give as a gift to his friends on christmas eve.

i really love this one. 

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Père Noël

signed, dated and dedicated

‘Picasso 24.12.59. pour Gilberte et Serge’ (upper left)

colored wax crayons on paper

19 ½ x 13 3/8 in. (49.5 x 34 cm.)

Drawn on 24 December 1959

Maya Widmaier-Picasso and Claude Picasso have confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Picasso gifted this work as a present to Gilberte Duclaud and Serge Chauby on Christmas Eve 1959.

Duclaud was the owner of Galerie 65 in Cannes, which held multiple exhibitions for the artist.

Sold at Christie’s in auction and now in a private collection, 1970.

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‘anybody with artisitc ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.’

-tim burton, american film writer/director

 

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  2. Nothing to do with your post but maybe everything to do with your post.

    When do we stop being children? Does someone tell us to stop being a child? And when in turn do we begin telling our children to grow up? And when do we again become childlike?

    (I do not argue/disagree with a comment from another who thought Picasso’s Santa looked sad …. but I thought this Santa is wonderful, happy, delightful. I think it came from the innocence of childhood before the corruption.)

    Thanks for always posting something for us to think about – and allowing us to express the thought.

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  6. to me it is more a ‘becoming a child again when eld’ – although I’d appreciate such a gift card…. but it’s also typically ‘a picasso’ as we ‘knew’ him…. at least he’s recognisable and has all his features in the right places! ;)

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