When Sophie Calle Fulfilled a Wish Addressed to Picasso

Published on 14 January 2024, by Anne Doridou-Heim

Auction on 27 January 2024 - 20:00 (CET) - 7 rue Drouot - 75009 Paris

While Picasso closed his eyes, Sophie Calle opened hers and a wish from 1958 will be realized.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), 1956, oval white earthenware dish decorated with a geometric... When Sophie Calle Fulfilled a Wish Addressed to Picasso

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), 1956, oval white earthenware dish decorated with a geometric face and engobes on the reverse featuring a frieze of brown and green faun heads, unique copy after an original made in Madoura, 37.5 x 31.5 cm/14.76 x 12.40 in. Estimate: €25,000/30,000
© SUCCESSION PICASSO, PARIS, 2024

“Sir, I am proud and delighted to appear at the same time as you in the Écho de la mode dated August 10, 1958,” begins a letter from René de Buxeuil, founder of the Association d'aide aux artistes aveugles (Association to Help Blind Artists), addressed to Pablo Picasso asking him to donate a drawing of "a blind man as you imagine him" to the organization. De Buxeuil, a composer who lost his sight at the age of 12, planned to sell the work and use the proceeds to fund the Maison des yeux clos (The House of Closed Eyes), a place where blind artists “could meet and find the moral and material comfort they need so much”. The letter went…

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