Gyula Halász, dit BRASSAÏ.

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Gyula Halász, dit BRASSAÏ.
Group photograph taken at Picasso's house for Le Désir attraperé par la queue. [16 June 1944] Original photograph, silver print (17.7 x 23.3 cm). Famous group portrait taken on June 16, 1944 in Picasso's studio, 7 rue des Grands Augustins in Paris. The painter had invited the participants to the first reading of Le Désir attrapé par la queue, the theatrical farce he had written in January 1941, in order to thank them and have them photographed. This reading took place in the Leiris apartment on the following 19 March. Actors and spectators were thus reunited three years later by Picasso. Standing: Jacques Lacan, Cécile Eluard, Pierre Reverdy, Louise Leiris, Zanie Aubier, Pablo Picasso, Valentine Hugo, Simone de Beauvoir. Seated: Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Michel Leiris and Jean Aubier. Four participants were not present at this commemorative meeting: Dora Maar, Germaine Hugnet, Raymond Queneau and Jacques Bost. Brassaï (1899-1984), a Hungarian-born photographer, moved to Paris in the early 1920s. He met Picasso in 1932 and took many photographs for him, including a series of Picasso in the studio in 1939 for Life magazine. Fold mark. A few pencil notes have left an imprint. Impression and framing indication around the portrait of Camus.
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