A framed oil portrait painting on a white gallery wall. The subject is a young man in a dark jacket and polka-dot bow tie, gazing upward against a warm terracotta background. A museum label to the right reads Cassandre, Portrait de Pierre Reverdy, 1943.

Cassandre — Portrait de Pierre Reverdy, 1943

5 October 2017 · Paris

Cassandre's 1943 oil portrait of poet Pierre Reverdy hangs against a gallery white wall, its black wooden frame angled slightly toward the viewer. The subject gazes upward and to one side — composed, a little distant — against a deep terracotta ground that gives the painting its warmth. Cassandre is remembered for his graphic posters, but this portrait shows the other side of that precision: the same flat planes and controlled edge, turned toward a human face.

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