Pour Margaret, from Picasso, with love

Nearly 40 years ago, shortly before she died, Margaret
Silberman wrote a memoir about her 14-year platonic
friendship with Picasso. She based it on the numerous gifts
Picasso had given her as testimony of his affection and on her
notes of the memorable occasions on which they were given.
She also wrote a short essay on Mme Jacqueline Picasso, who
had become her close friend and who, at the time, was not
widely appreciated for her outstanding qualities and virtues,
as she was to become later.
The memoir was never published – until now – and many of
the gifts illustrated in it have never been seen publicly before.