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Montparnasse in the roaring '20's
Cafés, binges, jazz ... and the first international colony of artists
- Paris's southern fringe...
witnessed the blossoming of some of the 20th-century's most important art, writing and ideas.
So diverse were the styles and origins of the artists who flocked there that they are grouped together simply as "The School of Paris", a term that includes Modigliani, Picasso and Jewish painters from Eastern Europe. It could be extended to most major American novelists of the 1920's... and Russian revolutionaries in exile.
 - The men in Cocteau's photo (taken in 1916) all became part of art history. Picasso is on the right.
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 - "Le Dôme", one of several cafés where artists gathered when light failed and studios grew cold.
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- One legend, Gertrude Stein
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 - Picasso's famous portrait of Gertrude Stein is the beginning of Cubism.
We describe the role of an American who "happened to be at the heart of a movement of which the arts world knew nothing." - Gertrude Stein
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- Another, "Kiki de Montparnasse"
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 - Turkish bath, by Man Ray
Alice Prin must be art history's most famous model. As well, she symbolized the freedom that could aid creation or destroy it.
We show photos of masterpieces for which she posed and tell her story.
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 - Another famous portrait, by Kisling
Much more than an uneducated pretty girl, she became a naîve painter of insight and wit and was an all-time great for having fun.
- The visit includes other photos or reproductions of works of art, some of which appear on this page
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