In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art

by Sue Roe

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  —, The Making of Americans. Being a History of a Family’s Progress. Written by Gertrude Stein, 1906–1908 (New York, Frankfurt and Villefranche-sur-Mer: Something Else Press, 1966)

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  —, Picasso: The Complete Writings, edited by Edward Burns, with a Foreword by Leon Katz and Edward Burns (Boston: Beacon Press, 1970)

  —, Three Lives, with an Introduction by Lyn Hejinian (Copenhagen and Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2004)

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  Stewart, Allegra, Gertrude Stein and the Present (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1967)

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  —, Souvenirs d’un marchand de tableaux (Paris: Albin Michel, 1937)

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  Zola, Émile, et al., Cézanne vu par …, texts chosen and annotated by Laure-Caroline Semmer (Paris: Beaux-Arts Éditions, 2011)

  Exhibition Catalogues

  Catalogues of the Salons d’Automne, 1903 onwards, Documentations Orsay, Paris

  André Derain, Grand Palais, 15 February–11 April 1977 (Rome: Edizioni dell’Elefante, 1976, and Paris: Éditions des Musées Nationaux, 1977)

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  Index

  The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. To find the corresponding locations in the text of this digital version, please use the “search” function on your e-reader. Note that not all terms may be searchable.

  Abrantes, Maud 208

  Absinthe Drinker, The (Picasso) 25, 306

  Académie Camillo 18–19

  Académie Colarossi 145

  Académie Humbert 60–61, 62–4

  Académie Julian 17, 98, 281

  Accordéon, L’ (film) 193

  acrobats xiv, 15, 79–80, 116, 126, 181, 280

  in Picasso’s paintings 101

  Actor, The (Picasso) 81

  aeroplanes 282–3

  African masks/sculpture 125–6, 161, 169, 177–8, 210–11, 273, 280

  Age of Anarchy, The (Signac) 85

  Akhmatova, Anna 284–5

  Alexandre, Paul 209, 210, 238, 243, 250, 290

  Alfonso XIII of Spain 203

  Anarchie, L’ (newspaper) 16

  anarchy

  The Age of Anarchy (Signac) 85

  anarchist movement 16

  Angely, Père (Léon) 29

  Apollinaire, Guillaume 75–6, 183, 184, 188, 194, 206–7, 220, 230, 231, 247, 251, 252, 253–4, 269

  Arte Joven 36, 294

  artists’
models 237

  for Canals 90

  for Casagemas 23, 26, 36

  for van Dongen 123

  for Dubienne 70–71, 78, 88, 89–90, 91

  for Matisse 20, 105, 127–8, 277

  for Modigliani 208, 285

  for Picasso v, 23, 36, 82, 87–92, 114–15, 134–40, 159, 160–61, 183, 185, 223, 243, 265, 270, 272

  for Poiret 51–2

  Artist’s Wife, The (or Madame Cézanne à l’éventail) 97, 100, 137, 139

  Asquith, H. H., 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith 275

  Asquith, Margot 275–6

  Assiette au beurre, L’ 23

  Astruc, Gabriel 258

  Athenaeum 290, 291

  Attente, L’ (Picasso) 25

  Au Lapin Agile (Picasso) 94

  Au Moulin de la Galette (Picasso) 23, 26

  Austen brothers 116

  Autoportrait (Matisse) 155, 169

  autopsies 9

  avant-garde xiii, 69, 119, 271, 286, 288, 307, 312

  Avril, Jane xii, 24

  Azon’s 79, 148, 230, 247, 298

  Baigneurs au repos (Cézanne) 31

  Bakst, Léon 50, 167, 168, 260, 287–8

  Ballets Russes xiv, xvi, 50, 203, 258–62, 286–9, 307

  Barcelona 5, 8, 9–10, 27, 36, 54, 56–7, 58, 69, 76, 157, 263, 264

  Bateau-Lavoir 70, 75–9, 83, 87–9, 91, 115, 120, 133, 136, 140–41, 142, 144, 148, 154–5, 159, 170, 177, 179–80, 185, 187–9, 209, 213, 218, 227, 230, 232, 235, 239–40, 253–4, 302–3

  Bateaux à Collioure (Derain) 107

  Bathers (Derain) 229

  Baudelaire, Charles 10, 96

  Beach, Sylvia 207

  Beardsley, Aubrey 167

  Bearing the Cross (Derain copy of Ghirlandaio) 19, 130, 153

  Beaux-Arts 6

  École des 6, 7, 17–18, 60, 237, 238

  Société Nationale des 20, 21

  Belle-Vallée, Fernande see Olivier, Fernande (née Amélie Lang)

  Bendix, Otto 198

  Benedict, Léon 165–6

  Benois, Alexandre 165, 167, 168

  Berenson, Bernard 98, 99

  Bernard, Émile 204–5

  Bernhardt, Sarah 51

  Bernheim-Jeune, Gaston 29, 42, 164, 176, 186, 227, 277, 306

  Bernheim-Jeune, Josse 29, 42, 176, 186, 227, 277, 306

  Bibi la Purée 37, 240

  Bird in Space (Brâncus¸i) 237

  Blue Dancer, The (Picasso) 26

  Blue Nude: Memory of Biskra (Matisse) 175, 176

  bohemianism/bohemians 10, 16

  in Montmartre 6, 20, 24, 120, 273

  Bois de Gosol (Picasso) 158

  Bonnard, Pierre 34, 152

  Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky) 258, 259–60

  Bouco (art dealer) 29

  boxing 231–2, 280

  Boy in the Red Vest (Cézanne) 208

  Boy Leading a Horse (Picasso) 80–81, 155

  Boy with a Pipe (Picasso) 117

  Brâncus¸i, Constantin 52, 209

  Bird in Space 237

  Braque, Charles 155

  Braque, Georges xv, 61–4, 65–6, 67–8, 69, 81–2, 125, 155, 178–9, 206–7, 232, 236, 237–8, 243–6, 276, 280, 290, 292, 301

  and aeroplanes 282, 283

  and the cinema 248–9

  cubism 244–6, 294

  and Derain 299

  Femme nue assise 207

  Le Golfe des lecques 207

  Grand Nu 229, 246

  and Matisse 244, 308

  and musical instruments 294

  and Olivier 231

  and Picasso 179, 202, 219, 220, 230, 232–4, 244–6, 248–9, 280, 282–3, 294, 295, 297, 307–8

  and Rousseau 251

  van Gogh’s influence 207

  and Vlaminck 232

  and X-rays 295–6

  Brassaï (Gyula Halász) 119, 206

  Bressol, Jean-Baptiste 250

  brothels 5, 10, 146, 194, 220

  Bruant, Aristide 12, 92

  Bust of Josep Fontdevila (Picasso) 160

  Butte de Montmartre see Montmartre, Butte de

  cabaret artistique 91, 92, 93, 310

  see also Lapin Agile

  Cabaret des Assassins 93

  see also Lapin Agile

  cabarets 9, 40, 93, 192–3, 259

  and Matisse 20, 22

  and Picasso xii, 12, 24, 25

  see also Lapin Agile; Moulin de la Galette; Moulin Rouge

  Cadaqués 294–8

  Caillebotte, Gustave 7, 30–31

  Canals, Benedetta 157

  Canals, Ricard 57, 90, 157

  Carrière, Eugène 18

  Casagemas, Carles 5–6, 9, 11–13, 23, 26–7

  models 23, 26, 36

  suicide 36, 53, 79

  Casals, Pablo 98

  Casanovas, Enric 158, 159

  Casas, Ramon 6, 10–11

  Catalan Cultural Revolution 10–11

  Céret 308

  Cézanne, Paul 9, 31–3, 62, 204–6

  The Artist’s Wife (or Madame Cézanne à l’éventail) 97, 100, 137, 139

  Baigneurs au repos 31

  and Bernard 204–5

  and the Bernheim-Jeunes 186

  Boy in the Red Vest 208

  Cinque Pommes 226–7

  and Derain 300

  Fry on 292

  influence on Matisse 22, 59, 109, 226

  influence on Picasso 159, 161, 170–71, 206

  and perspective 32, 139, 205

  and Rilke 205–6

  and the Salon d’Automne 97, 100, 204, 205–6

  and the Steins 97–8, 99, 100, 226–7

  Three Bathers 22, 59, 109, 226

  and Vollard 30–31, 32–3, 35, 97–8, 152, 208

  and Zola 32

  Cézanne, Paul (jnr) 205

  Chaliapin, Feodor 260

  Charcot, Jean-Martin xii

  Chemise, La (van Dongen) 123

  Chocolat (clown) 119–20

  cinema xiv, 120–21, 191–4, 248–50

  animated 121

  and art 193–4, 210, 246

  and Braque 248–9

  circus viewings of movies 120, 192

  peepshows 194

  and Picasso 121, 248–9, 250

  silent movies 51, 121

  at World Fair 4, 121

  see also photography/film

  Cinque Pommes (Cézanne) 226–7

  circus 79–80, 115–20, 162, 178, 181, 192, 210, 248, 280

  acrobats see acrobats

  and the cinema 120, 192

  clowns see clowns

  Medrano see Cirque Medrano

  Cirque Fernando 116

  Cirque d’Hiver 192

  Cirque Medrano 23, 115–16, 117, 119, 120, 181, 239, 303

  Clemenceau, Georges 94

  Clichy 12, 36, 39, 56, 60, 94, 187, 192, 270, 272, 273–4, 294

  Closerie des Lilas 95, 132

  clowns xiv, 116, 117, 118–20, 126, 181, 280

  in Picasso’s painting 37, 56

  Cobb, Irvin S. 215

  Cocteau, Jean 245, 247, 262, 300–301, 305, 312

  Coiffure, La (Matisse) 177

  Collioure 103–13, 127, 155, 171, 177, 186

  Derain’s paintings of 106, 107, 123

  colonial art 125–6

  Comédie-Française 50

  Communards 16

  Composition with Skull (Picasso) 306

  concrete poetry 207

  Coquiot, Gustave 38

  Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille 62

  couleur pour la couleur 110

  Courcy, Monsieur de 217

  cubism xiv, 9, 244–7, 248, 265, 270–71, 275, 294, 299, 300, 302–3

  and Fauvism 298–9, 300–301

  Monnier on 207

  Dalí, Salvador 294

  dancers xi, xiv, 66, 67, 93, 95, 181, 182–3, 257

  Russian 259 see also Ballets Russes

  Danse, La (Matisse) xiv, 67, 177, 257, 276, 277, 303–4, 306, 311

  David, Jacques-Louis
7

  Death of a Harlequin (Picasso) 160

  Decadents 161, 167

  Degas, Edgar 11, 26, 31, 116

  and Mir Iskusstva 100

  Déjeuner sur l’herbe, Le (Manet) 7

  Delacroix, Eugène 7

  Demoiselles d’Avignon, Les (Picasso) xiv, 219–24, 233, 234

  Denis, Maurice 152

  Derain, Alice see Princet, Alice, previously Alice Géry, later Alice Derain

  Derain, André xv, 18–19, 42–3, 105–13, 123, 124–5, 154, 167, 186, 211, 298–300

  and aeroplanes 284

  and African masks/sculpture 126, 273

  Bateaux à Collioure 107

  Bathers 229

  and Braque 299

  and Cézanne 300

  in Collioure 105–13

  and cubism 246–7, 299–300

  and Diaghilev 288

  divisionism 107

  and Fauvism 124, 130, 247, 298–9

  Fishing Boats, Collioure 106

  Ghirlandaio copy, Bearing the Cross 19, 130, 153

  in London 130

  marriage to Alice Princet 213

  and Matisse 105–13, 171, 300

  and Picasso xiii, 130, 181, 182, 219, 229, 230–31, 232, 246–7, 297, 299

  and Poiret 236

  and Rousseau 251

  Le Séchage des voiles 107

  Still Life with Skull 306

  and van Gogh 43

  and Vlaminck 43–5, 47, 48, 49, 106, 110, 111–12, 120, 126, 213, 232, 247, 248, 284

  and Vollard 130, 134, 153

  Vue de Collioure 123

  Deux Hémisphères, Hôtel des 117, 181

  Dévideuse picarde (intérieur)(Matisse) 69

  Diaghilev, Sergei 34, 50, 64, 94, 165–9, 211, 258–61, 262, 286, 288–9, 305, 311, 312

  and Mir Iskusstva 100–101, 165, 167

  see also Ballets Russes

  Dinner Table, The (Matisse) 86

  Diseuse, La (Picasso) 25

  Divan Japonais 24

  divisionism 84, 85, 101, 107, 109, 110, 126–7

  Dongen, Dolly van 140, 170

  Dongen, Guus van 140, 170

  Dongen, Kees van xi–xii, xv, 23, 123, 140–41, 170

  La Chemise 123

  and Olivier 123, 140, 214

  and Picasso xiii, 23, 114, 140–41

  and Poiret 52

  and the Salon d’Automne (1905) 170

  Torse 123

  Dorgelès, Roland 262, 279

  Doucet, Jacques 50–51

  Druet, Eugène 151, 170, 194

  Dubienne, Laurent 70–71, 88, 89, 90, 91

  Dubray, Auguste 66

  Dumont, Alberto Santos 283

  Duncan, Isadora 259, 261

  Duncan, Raymond 132, 154, 199