2023-08-04 16:39:24
Paris in the summer of 1944, following the Allies had landed in Normandy in June: Brassaï, the Hungarian-born photographer, regularly meets or visits Pablo Picasso. Their acquaintance had become a close friendship in the 1940s. Now and then he takes pictures like the one that shows Picasso’s emaciated dog on a small carpet in the studio. The shortage of supplies in the metropolis, which had been occupied by German troops since June 1940, had seriously worsened.
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