Estimate: € 10.000-12.000

Vintage silver print, mounted on the original cardboard

25,4 x 38,2 cm

Signed, titled, exposure and printing date, »Picasso at home Villa La Californie« annotated by the photographer on the lower mount, his copyright stamp in red, also signed and dedicated »For my treasured friend Michel Sola. This is one of my first prints of Picasso, made for the first maquettes for my first book about my new great friend: "The Private World of Pablo Picasso". The morning we met, first shot. The print - like photographer and veteran editor - is somewhat bruised and battered today, which is why I now bring it to your home and understanding hands. DDD« on the reverse

LITERATURE David Douglas Duncan, Viva Picasso, Munich 1980, p.1; David Douglas Duncan, Photo Nomad, Verona 2003, p. 12-13; Die private Welt von Pablo Picasso, 1958, p.1.

PROVENANCE the print originally comes from the estate of Michel Sola (editor-in-chief of the photography department of Paris-Match for many years)

Start price: €5.000