'What a treasure of incomprehension...'
Picasso, about his friend and secretary Jaime Sabartés. #NYRBWomen24
The books I read in April (not pictured: 📱This Little Art by Kate Briggs; La Préparation du Roman by Roland Barthes) 🌷📚 #savage2024 #nyrbwomen24 #katebriggs24 #booktwt
#NYRBWomen24 We’ll be starting LIFE WITH PICASSO by Françoise Gilot & Carlton Lake on May 1. Page guide coming later today or tomorrow. All are welcome to join! I’ve been wanting to read this for awhile.
'I knew that an artist draws from his direct experience of life whatever quality of vision he brings to his work and that I had to break out of the cocoon. I think this was more than an intellectual crisis. It was almost a rebirth...'
Loving it!
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from Last Words From Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin, tr. Ari Larissa Heinrich. Just started reading for #NYRBWomen24 , it is beautiful writing but oh my heart.
#NYRBWomen24 A 🧵 of the rabbit holes I went down while reading LAST WORDS FROM MONTMARTRE. (Several films.) I’m also fascinated by the structure & have MANY questions.
'It was here in this room that I painted Guernica.'
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- Brassaï photo of Picasso in the window of his studio
- Guernica
1/2
I've been struggling to engage with this book, but after reading multiple passionate reactions and receiving several encouragements to continue with Last Words from Montmartre, I'm starting over from the beginning, reading slowly.
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“Finally he showed us a group of portraits of Dora Maar, very tortured in form, which he had painted over the past two years. They are among the finest paintings he has ever done, I believe.” (p20) #NYRBWomen24
I’m so glad I finally started what I hope to be a long literary relationship with Eileen Chang! Thanks to #NYRBWomen24 I loved Love in a Fallen City. Some brief thoughts over on Instagram. instagram.com/p/C6MPkdQxwC4/…
“The most striking thing, though, was a glowing canvas by Matisse, a still life of 1912, with a bowl of oranges on a pink tablecloth against a light ultramarine & bright pink background […] I couldn’t resist saying, “Oh, what a beautiful Matisse!” (p17) #NYRBWomen24
![“The most striking thing, though, was a glowing canvas by Matisse, a still life of 1912, with a bowl of oranges on a pink tablecloth against a light ultramarine & bright pink background […] I couldn’t resist saying, “Oh, what a beautiful Matisse!” (p17) #NYRBWomen24](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GMhQu88bgAAAxb0.jpg "Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ (@joiedevivre9) on Twitter photo 2024-05-01 20:21:10 “The most striking thing, though, was a glowing canvas by Matisse, a still life of 1912, with a bowl of oranges on a pink tablecloth against a light ultramarine & bright pink background […] I couldn’t resist saying, “Oh, what a beautiful Matisse!” (p17) #NYRBWomen24")
“In that pre Me Too era women not supposed to bite the tires of the Humvees that were rolling over them.” From the introduction of Life with Picasso by Françoise Gilot. #NYRBWomen24
Our next #NYRBWomen24 book starts tomorrow! LIFE WITH PICASSO by Françoise Gilot & Carlton Lake. Here's the page guide. joiedevivre9.com/nyrbwomen24.ht…
#NowReading • Nº 49 • LIFE WITH PICASSO by Françoise Gilot & Carlton Lake (1964, NYRB Classics 2019) #NYRBWomen24
