188 - PICASSO

PICASSO Pablo Picasso drawing on a banknote with Françoise Gillot and the Batigne family, a ceramist in Vallauris; lunch with the Batigne family, ca. 1949. Photographs. 10 original silver gelatin prints from the period. Accompanied by - 2 prints: Picasso, Cocteau, and Jacqueline, with a “Pictorial” stamp on the back; Exhibition in July 1949 in Vallauris by Marcel Laugier. - 6 Kodachrome slides: Picasso at a dinner with the Batigne family. - 2 Kodachrome slides: Picasso and Cocteau at a restaurant. - 3 flexible negatives: Picasso painting a ceramic piece, Picasso standing, a reproduction of a letter from Picasso dated February 8, 1950, addressed to Mr. Valsuani (art bronze foundry) requesting the removal of the bronze sculpture “L’Homme au Mouton.” - 1 broken glass negative: Picasso painting a ceramic piece. 9 x 14 cm to 11 x 16 cm René Batigne had known Pablo Picasso since the Bateau-Lavoir days. He settled there with his wife, Claire Voight, an American painter, as ceramicists and founded the Atelier du Tapis Vert in Vallauris, where Pablo Picasso practiced ceramics. Provenance: René Batigne estate.