Signed book: Picasso: Portraits & Souvenirs by Jaime Sabartes. First edition. Paris: Carre & Vox Editeurs, 1946. Softcover with dust jacket, 4.75 x 7.25, 235 pages. Signed on the half-title page in pencil by the subject, "Picasso," and in blue ballpoint by the author, "J. Sabartés." Autographic condition: fine, with edge toning to the signed page. Book condition: G+/VG-, with the front blank wrapper detached but present, toning to textblock, and some foxing and toning to the jacket. Housed in a handsome custom-made quarter-leather green clamshell case.
Picasso first met Sabartes in 1899 when they were both just eighteen years old and began a lifelong friendship. Sabartes initiated the establishment of the Museu Picasso in Barcelona with the donation of his personal collection, which consisted of nearly six hundred of Picasso's works. A supremely desirable association piece.
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