Georges Braque. (Art) (column)

The Nation | August 27, 1988| | Copyright

In November of 1908, Picasso and his mistress, Fernande Olivier, organized a banquet in honor of Le Douanier Rousseau, at which the guest of honor is said to have told Picasso: "We are the two greatest painters of our epoch, you in the Egyptian style, I in the modern." As the banquet took place in Picasso's studio, where as far as I know Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was still on view to Picasso's pals, there is a certain crackpot acuity tantamount to wit in Rousseau's seeing Picasso as part of an Egyptian revival. But in that very month, an influential review by Louis ...

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