Max Jacob * La Pavlova Mixed technique 26 × 35 cm

Max Jacob (French, 1876-1944) La Pavlova signed 'Max Jacob' (centre left) mixed media on paper 26 x 35cm (10 1/4 x 13 3/4in). Footnotes: Literature Jewish Artists of the school of Paris 1905-1939 , Somogy Éditions d'Art, Paris, 2015, p. 167. Max Jacob was raised in a family of tailors and antique dealers. He was a poet, novelist, playwright, art critic and painter. In 1897, he settled in Paris and started authoring art columns for the journals Moniteur des Arts and La Gazette des Beaux-Arts , under the pseudonym 'Léon David'. In 1901 he met Picasso and settled with him on boulevard Voltaire. He associated with painters and poets at the Beateau-Lavoir. The first book that he published was Histoire du Roi Kaboul Ier et du marmiton Gauwain which was followed by several others including Le Cornet à dés , Le Phanérogame , and Les Alliés sont en Arménie In 1914, he converted to Christianity. In his career as a painter he produced few oil paintings but mostly gouaches depicting views of Brittany and circus scenes. In 1933, he was named a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour. Pavlova is a portrayal of the classical ballet dancer Anna Pavlova. She was a star of the Imperial Russian Ballet and of Serge Diaghilev's Russian Ballets. Her most famous role was the Death of the Swan and she was the first ballerina to travel the world with her own ballet company. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com