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Outstanding vintage glossy 4.5 x 6.25 deckle-edge photo of Pablo Picasso with French Communist Party leader Maurice Thorez, signed on the reverse in blue ballpoint by the celebrated artist, "Picasso." The reverse carries the photographer's credit stamp ("Photo Maurice Ferrier") and the stamp of the "Parti Communiste Francais." In very good to fine condition, with creasing to the upper corners, and two heavier creases to the lower right.
Pablo Picasso and Maurice Thorez were known to each other through their involvement with the French Communist Party (PCF), which Thorez led from 1930 until his death in 1964. Picasso formally joined the French Communist Party in October 1944, shortly after the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation, and remained a party member for the rest of his life.
In 'Why I Became a Communist,' Picasso explained: 'I have become a Communist because our party strives more than any other to know and to build the world, to make men clearer thinkers, more free and more happy…The French Communist Party is a fatherland for me. In it I find again all my friends—the great scientists Paul Langevin and Frederick Joliot-Curie, the great writers Louis Aragorn and Paul Eluard, and so many of the beautiful faces of the insurgents of Paris. I am again among my brothers.'
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