Pablo Picasso

PABLO PICASSO (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, France, 1973).
"Handwritten letter" Paris March 26, 1947.
Ink on paper.
Framed with museum glass.
Letter registered in; Les Argonautes, autographes authenticité garantie" paragraph 96, in Paris in the 80s.
Letter signed, dated and dedicated to Eugenia Huici de Errázuriz.
Measurements: 27 x 21 cm; 57 x 50 cm (frame).
* The photographs shown illustrate the protagonists of the letter, although they are not enclosed with the lot.

Personal letter handwritten by Picasso and addressed to his friend and patron Eugenia Huici de Errázuriz (1860-1951). It reads "A surprise, here I present María Concepción and her mother", from which it can be deduced that the letter was from a photograph in which Maya Picasso (1935-2022) and Marie-Thérèse Walter (1909-1977), the artist's mistress, could be seen. The artist ends this part with the following words: "As always, working day and night, as always". On the other side you can read: "Rare loves, let's see you soon, a hug and all the love of your friend forever Picasso" "Paris March 26, 1947".
The letter is an important personal and intimate testimony of the friendship of two of the most relevant personalities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Eugenia Huici Arguedas de Errázuriz, of Chilean origin, was one of the great patrons of modernism and a style leader in Paris from 1880 to the 20th century. Her sober taste as an interior designer was influential during the period. Among her friends and protégés were Igor Stravinsky, Jean Cocteau and the poet Blaise Cendrars and Pablo Picasso in fact Picasso's biographer nicknamed her "Picasso's second mother".
Creator of Cubism together with Braque, Picasso began his artistic studies in Barcelona, at the Provincial School of Fine Arts (1895). Only two years later, in 1897, Picasso had his first solo exhibition at the café "Els Quatre Gats". Paris was to become Pablo's great goal and in 1900 he moved to the French capital for a brief period of time. When he returned to Barcelona, he began to work on a series of works in which the influences of all the artists he had known or whose work he had seen could be seen. He is a sponge that absorbs everything but retains nothing; he is searching for a personal style. Between 1901 and 1907 he developed the Blue and Pink Stages, characterized by the use of these colors and by their subject matter with sordid, isolated figures, with gestures of sorrow and suffering. The painting of these early years of the twentieth century was undergoing continuous changes and Picasso could not remain on the sidelines. He became interested in Cézanne, and based on his example he developed a new pictorial formula together with his friend Braque: Cubism. But Picasso did not stop there and in 1912 he practiced collage in painting; from that moment on, anything goes, imagination became the master of art. Picasso is the great revolutionary and when all painters are interested in cubism, he is concerned with the classicism of Ingres. The surrealist movement of 1925 did not catch him unawares and, although he did not participate openly, it served as an element of rupture with the previous, introducing in his work distorted figures with great force and not exempt of rage and fury. As with Goya, Picasso was also greatly influenced by his personal and social situation at the time of his work. His relationships with women, often tumultuous, will seriously affect his work. However, what had the greatest impact on Picasso was the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War and the bombing of Guernica, which led to the creation of the most famous work of contemporary art. Paris was his refuge for a long time, but the last years of his life were spent in the south of France, working in a very personal style, with vivid colors and strange shapes. Picasso is represented in the most important museums around the world, such as the Metropolitan, the MOMA and the Guggenheim in New York, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the National Gallery in London or the Reina Sofia in Madrid.