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In the year 1907 Picasso was only twentyfive. Yet despite his youth he already had behind him a considerable body of artistic achievcment-more than two hundred paintings, several thousand drawings, numerous gouaches, pastels, water-colours and engravings, and a few sculptures. Up till then his work...

The name of the dark, thickset young man with the piercing eyes, who arrived in Paris for the first time one October day in the year 1900, shivering in a thick overcoat and carrying an umbrella, was Pablo Ruiz. He was 19 years old, and had come from Barcelona for a two months stay in Paris. In...

THE BLACK SPANIEL part i—the death I TN the big hall of the Grand Hotel at Rome I introduced Peter Deeming to Vernon Kersteven. The two men were friends of mine, and I wanted them to like one another; and, perhaps because they were both fond of me, I thought that they would get on well...