From Naples, I returned to Rome and spent a wonderful week with Lord Berners. After that, it was necessary to return to Switzerland, and I will never forget the adventure that happened to me at the border in Chiasso. I was carrying with me my portrait, shortly before Picasso painted.
When the military authorities began to inspect my luggage, they stumbled upon this drawing and never wanted to miss it. I was asked what it was, and when I said that it was my portrait, painted by one very famous artist, they didn’t believe me: “This is not a portrait, but a plan,” they said. “Yes, this is the plan of my face, and not something else,” I assured. However, I failed to convince these gentlemen.
All these altercations took a lot of time, I was late for my train, and I had to stay in Chiasso until the next morning. As for my portrait, I had to send it to the British Embassy in Rome in the name of Lord Berners, who later forwarded it to me in Paris by diplomatic mail.
Portrait d’Igor Stravinsky – Pablo Picasso 
Retrato de Igor Stravinsky – Pablo Picasso 
Portrait of Olga in the chair by Pablo Picasso 
Portrait of Wilhelm Ude by Pablo Picasso 
Self Portrait in the Blue Period by Pablo Picasso 
Portrait of Gertrude Stein by Pablo Picasso 
Portrait of Daniel Henri Kaneveiler by Pablo Picasso 
Self Portrait by Pablo Picasso