{"id":1455,"date":"2018-06-05T14:57:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T12:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lucien-clergue.com\/picasso-2\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T19:38:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T17:38:48","slug":"picasso","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/lucien-clergue.com\/en\/picasso\/","title":{"rendered":"Picasso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>It was in 1953 \u2014 I was 19 years old \u2014 when I made my first photographs of Picasso. I was watching a bullfight in the Arles Arena, and I discovered Picasso when a matador dedicated his bull\u2019s death to him. I ran quickly to the exit of the grandstand to photograph him\u2026 Thus began our friendship.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Picasso my Friend, Plume Editions 1993<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arles, 15 December 1955<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(\u2026) Until I saw Picasso\u2026I lived in the most perfect solitude and did my work without thinking of anything beyond that. After seeing Picasso and being received by him in Cannes when he repeated: \u201cI\u2019ve never seen anything like it, I\u2019ve never seen anything like it\u201d, I thought, or rather I let myself be convinced that despite my 21 years the time had perhaps come to begin showing my work.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Correspondence Jean Cocteau, Lucien Clergue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lucien Clergue frequented Pablo Picasso for twenty years, being received on numerous occasions at his villa the California, in Cannes and at Notre-Dame-de-Vie in Mougins where he made his last portrait of the artist in 1971, two years before his death. Picasso, enthusiastic about Clergue\u2019s images of dead animals and the circus children, considered him to be a greater photographer than Henri Cartier Bresson, and complimented him by saying: <em>Clergue\u2019s photographs are the good Lord\u2019s sketch books!<\/em> Or again was quoted in one of Cocteau\u2019s lettres to Clergue, dated 1956: <em>Picasso told me\u2026 his complete admiration for your series \u2018Stomachs\u2019. \u201cYou could, he said, sign Renoir\u201d<\/em>. Thanks to Picasso, the young photographer was able to meet not only Jean Cocteau, but also the historian and art collector Douglas Cooper, who opened up his extraordinary collection of books and artworks to the young man, avid for visual stimulation. Picasso\u2019s generosity to Clergue and his admiration for the work of the budding photographer resulted in many collaborations, notably Picasso\u2019s illustration for the cover of \u201cCorps m\u00e9morable\u201d in 1957, where Clergue\u2019s images accompanied Paul Eluard\u2019s poems; or again, the poster for Clergue\u2019s first exhibition in Cologne in 1958 and then the cover for the book \u201cPoesie der Photographie\u201d in 1960.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was in 1953 \u2014 I was 19 years old \u2014 when I made my first photographs of Picasso. I was watching a bullfight in the Arles Arena, and I discovered Picasso when a matador dedicated his bull\u2019s death to him. 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