Le Patriote Numéro spécial : "A tes 20 ans, Pablo !"

Rare special issue of the daily Le Patriote dedicated to Picasso's birthday and titled: à tes 20 ans Pablo! (“To your 20 years, Picasso!”)

Exceptional copy signed by Picasso.

First page illustrated with a large composition in black and white representing a dove on a star by Georges Braque with this printed dedication: “This messenger bird of my good wishes for your birthday. Your old friend G. Braque.”

The last page has a full-page illustration of a magnificent color reproduction of a bullfighting collage by Alberto Magnelli.
Many illustrations in the text by Miro, Borès, Pignon, Borsi, Prévert, Hugnet, etc...

Contributions by Douglas Cooper, André Verdet, Georges Tabaraud, Renato Guttuso, Jacques Duclos, Gustavo Gill, Javier Vitalo, Marie Cuttoli, Jean Cocteau, Fernand Mourlot, Jacques Prévert, Serge Lifar, Louis Broder, Léon Moussinac, Le Corbusier, Nadia Léger, Virgile Barel, Janine and Francis Crémieux, Xavier Busquets, Ilya Erhenbourg, Camilo-José Cela, Georges Hugnet, André Lhote, D.-H. Kanweiler, D. Duncan, Lucien Clergue, Christian Zervos, etc...

Our copy is enriched with a precious handwritten signature by Pablo Picasso in pencil on the first page, above and to the right of the illustration by Georges Braque.

A very rare special issue dedicated to Pablo Picasso and signed by him, in remarkably fresh condition.