Pablo Picasso writes to his friend Max Pellequer for a financial project.

Pablo Picasso (1881.1973)

Autograph letter signed to Max Pellequer.

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[Château de] Vauvenargues, "Le 13. [0] 5. [19] 59"

Picasso writes to his friend and advisor Max Pellequer for a financial project

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"My dear max. I send you the check for the collector of the 6th  ^A T  ⁽ 70,000) [probably for his apartment at 7, rue des Grands Augustins in the 6th ^{arrondissement} ] in this letter. I will write to you soon for our and your bank project here and in Cannes. [Jaime] Sabartés left and is already in Paris . He will see you as soon as you come back. A thousand friendships of the two of us for both of you. I kiss you. Picasso "

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Banquier and wisdom lover, Max Pellequer brings together in the 1920s a considerable collection of modernist works. He married in 1920 Francine Level, niece of the merchant and businessman André Level. It was also through the latter that he met Picasso in 1914. This meeting marks the genesis of an unwavering friendship between the two men. Pellequer becomes one of the artist's most intimate, but also his banker and financial advisor. For more than 30 years, he acquired from Picasso an incredible collection of paintings and sculptures. The epistolary relationship that they have all these years during the year allows us to take the measure of the links that united the two men.
Always with the precious help of his friend Max, Picasso acquired a 14th century castle ⁱⁿ 1958, in Vauvenargues, near Aix en Provence, at the foot of the Sainte-Victoire mountain. He occupied him intermittently between 1959 and 1962. On this subject, he declared to Danier-Henry Kahnweiler: “I bought the Sainte-Victoire de Cézanne. Which ? The real one ”. It is in the park of this same property that the painter will be buried in a deleterious atmosphere on April 10, 1973.

Jaime Sabartés (1881-1968), here mentioned, is a Spanish poet who was for a long time the private secretary of Picasso, whose biography he published: Picasso: Toreros , in 1961.