In Montmartre Picasso Matisse And The Birth Of Modernist Art Roe Sue by Roe Sue 9780698192232, 0698192230 instant download after payment.

Leo Stein said of Picasso that he was "just completely there … more real than most people". This book is also just completely there. Like the Catalan sardana, a dance, as Picasso told Braque, that is "a communion of souls … each step must be counted … rich and poor, young and old, dance it together," here they are, all the very different characters in a group biography that manages not to miss any steps. André Derain stands out in his tall lankiness, with his outfits varying from his Collioure period of all white with a red beret, to his dandyish English tweeds with his red and green ties in his Montmartre period, to his thick woollen sweaters on the Rue Bonaparte. Maurice de Vlaminck – with his powerful body, blue eyes, flaming red hair, red scarf and a painted wooden necktie – joins Derain. Pablo Picasso and the curly-haired Georges Braque – both enchanted with Wilbur Wright and the idea of flight, experimenting with paper sculptures as "flying machines" – take to wearing "Vilbours": replicas of Wright's peaked green cap (Braque was even nicknamed "Vilbour"). Both also wore the cloche hats Braque had found at Le Havre, their sideburns smudged with burnt cork alongside their false moustaches. Costumes count. (the Guardian review)