Martin Gayford

Exactly how much fun was it being an impoverished artist in Paris?

A review of In Montmatre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris, 1900 – 1910, by Sue Roe. This rollicking read is at its best when describing the bacchanalian squalor

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  • In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris, 1900–1910

    Sue Roe

    Penguin/Fig Tree, pp. 365

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