Staying in Rome for the preparations of the ballet Parade – written by Jean Cocteau – Pablo Picasso sends his regards to the journalist André Delhaye at the “café de la rotonde, corner of Bd Montparnasse and Raspail. Paris”.
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Autographed card signed to André Delhay.
A page in-12° on the back of a Banca Italiania di Sconto card.
Rome. [March 20, 1917, according to the postmark]
Staying in Rome for the preparations of the ballet Parade – written by Jean Cocteau – Pablo Picasso sends his regards to the journalist André Delhaye at the “café de la rotonde, corner of Bd Montparnasse and Raspail. Paris”.
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Best regards
Picasso
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ROMA
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A close friend of Modigliani and lover of Thérèse Hummel, André Delhaye was a political journalist and parliamentary service specialist at the newspaper L'Humanité .
Pablo Picasso arrived in Rome, Italy, in February 1917. Jean Cocteau had asked him to accompany him to work on the production of the ballet Parade , inspired by one of Cocteau's poems; Picasso was in charge of designing the sets. The ballet was to be staged by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, whose company was based in Rome. It was also in Rome that Picasso met the actress Olga Khokhlova, who was rehearsing the role of Felicita in the studios on Piazza Venezia. Captivated by her beauty, the artist began a persistent courtship of the woman who became his wife in July 1918.