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    6 AFRICA AND PARIS: THE ART OF PICASSO AND HIS CIRCLE SUZANNE PRESTON BLIER Afican ar, evolution, racial aesthetls, colonialism, and world fairs were among the common threads that helped to shape the image of the black in Trance inthe fist decade of the twentieth century. For Pleasso and some in is cree, Africa (and Africans) represented a combination of creativity, curtosiy, social concern, sexual provocation, philosophical interest, and extended family ties, Pablo Peass' frst encowater with Afican act, which led to his inital studies for bis famous 1907 painting Les Demoieles Pavignon, i many ways begins witha small Vil “idol” igure fom the Congo, a sculpture thet Matisse alzo would include in bis late 1906 Sul Life with African Sculpture, Matisse’s unfinished water: color panting ofthe Vill igure ia stil if that also depletstheee vases anda glass goblet It isa eaavas that focuses attention on the Congo sculpture init, one whose very figural primacy ads a sense of animation and humanity to the whole. This watercolor also speaks to the important visual play between susface volumes and voids, Baropean artifacts and a work from Africa! But the main story here isthe significance ofthis Afican sculpture to Picasso limportant 1906-1907 painting and changes in ‘While some of the details ofthe story have been forgotten, there sno doubt that ths same Vii sculpture had an indelible influence on Picaseo, The event in question took place j the autumn of 1906 soon after Picasso had completed the portrat of Gertrude Stein? ‘The ist to discuss this encounter isthe artists close friend Max Jacob, poet and art critic. The setting, Jacob nots, was adinner at the home of Parts then more celebrated painter Hensh Matisse. ‘Two of Pieasos other good friends, Guillaume Apollnaie and ‘André Salmon, also were present. ‘At some point, Matisse took from a table a statuette in black ‘wood and showed it to Picasso. It was the fist African slp: Picasso eld it in his hand the entre evening, The next morning when I arived at the sudlo, the floor was strewn with sheets of Ingres paper. On each sheet was large

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