©Pablo Picasso - Portrait of Petrus Manach 1901

Picasso Portrait of Petrus Manach 1901
Portrait of Petrus Manach
1901 105x70cm oil/canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washingon, DC, USA

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Pere Manach (Barcelona, 1870-c. 1940), was the first dealer Pablo Picasso and patron of the design works Josep Maria Jujol.
He was heir to a family of industrial Barcelona. Anarchist ideals, he settled in Paris Young, attracted by the cultural movement of time.1 With great intuition to detect new talents of the young painting, helped young Catalan artists.