Picasso/Clergue Picasso international conservation initiatives

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Texts by Kingston TrinderEssays by Sonia Haoa-Cardinali and Atholl AndersonEpilogue by Sylvia EarleProduced in collaboration with the Kon-Tiki Museum

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Viviane Sassen (born 1972) is a Dutch photographer based in Amsterdam who works in both the fashion and fine art worlds

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Picasso/Clergue Picasso international conservation initiativesA three decade friendship chronicling Picassos postwar years On April 5, 1953, the French photographer Lucien Clergue (19342014) met Pablo Picasso (18811973) at a bullfight in Arles. Clergue shot several portraits of the artist and showed him some of his Polaroid pictures. Two years later they met again in La Californie, the artist's house in Cannes, and a friendship was cemented that lasted until Picasso's death in 1973. In those years, they met on